On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:32, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > Martin Buchholz wrote: > > > Right. There is a problem when different sets of contributors have > > different objectives for things like compatibility, portability, > > stability, benchmark performance.... > > > It might be that a significant contributor (like Sun or IcedTea) > > would maintain a separate set of patches essentially forever, since > > they would not be acceptable to the greater community. Oh, I guess > > that's already happened, eh? > > Ouch, that touched a nerve. > > I certainly hope not. Goodness knows, we're really trying to make that > separate set of patches go away. >
I wasn't trying to criticize IcedTea specifically. Both IcedTea and Google are working hard to send changes upstream, but I know that Google has some that will remain private, and I suspect that may be true for all 3 of our organizations going forward, despite our best efforts to achieve a common code base. Martin > > Andrew. >
