I would ask if the maintainers are still actively involved in the
project. Are contributions being made by them, or anyone else, and if
so, are they being discussed, reviewed, and committed? Is the
documentation up to date? Would a person who finds the project on the
Internet be assured by the state of what is there to want to invest the
time and effort to try to learn and master the details of it? Would a
developer be willing to stake his reputation by bringing the project to
his group for use on their new device?
If the answer is "no" to most of these questions, then an open-source
project is dead.
At that point, if there is anyone else who still cares about it, then
it's probably time for a fork or for the maintainers to hand the keys over.
Frank
On 10/13/2015 08:30 AM, David Fernandez wrote:
(resent, as was sent from company email with likely privacy disclaimer
attached)
On 13/10/15 00:57, Jonathan Larmour 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.
It seems, they will not put any port to official open source
repository if
it could disturb commercial interests (eCosCentric/eCosPro...).
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.
I would say that nobody looks at the list these days, specially
ecos-devel.
I had some things I managed to put in a state I could submit as valid
patches, but nobody answers the emails, so you end up forgetting about
it and keeping private patches.
Is there any way people can contribute currently, I mean actively
contribute, rather than just throw stuff into a black hole?
Otherwise, it might be better to just be clear and say that opensource
eCos is meant as an evaluation repository, and eCosCentric should be
the way to go for any real contributions and in business use of eCos.
Regards
David Fernandez
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