On 2015-10-12, Jonathan Larmour <j...@jifvik.org> wrote: > On 06/10/15 08:51, Richard Rauch wrote: >> You do not see a lot of activities in the eCos community because of politics >> and commercial interests. > [snip] >> This is just a guess, but in my opinion the reason for this is, that the >> maintainers of public eCos are as well strongly commercial oriented.
Well... I do rather like to eat, and the bank that owns my house gets a bit uppity if I stop sending mortgage payments. So yes I am "strongly commercial oriented" in that I do dedicate a considerable amount of my waking time to earning a living rather than maintaining eCos. I also have a number of non-eCos-related things I like to do when I'm not actively working to earn a living. >> It seems, they will not put any port to official open source >> repository if it could disturb commercial interests >> (eCosCentric/eCosPro...). No. Just no. I certainly am not refusing to commit anything out of deference to the commercial interests of eCosCentric. I'd be very shocked if any of the other maintainers were. [And I can't believe that they (eCosCentric et alia) would ask/expect any of us to do so.] > If nothing else, look at the list at the bottom of > http://ecos.sourceware.org/intouch.html and you'll see that only two > of the maintainers (myself and Nick) are in eCosCentric - severely > outnumbered! If a maintainer has the time and ability to go through, > review and potentially rework any submission, then any of them can. > If you think there has been some secret agreement behind-the-scenes > between all maintainers to deliberately stop contributions being > committed you are very mistaken. Speaking only for myself, the main reasons are 1) lack of spare time, and 2) insufficient depth of knowlege in various areas of the kernel to feel comfortable reviewing most of the submissions. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Maybe I should have at asked for my Neutron Bomb gmail.com in PAISLEY -- -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
