Hi Tomas, 

> "Please believe me, we (maintainers) have no time to gather changes from 
> every fork of OpenOCD on github and everywhere. And moreover if we did so it 
> would be quite unfair to the authors of lots of changes which are already 
> waiting in the gerrit." 

I didn't realize this before. My apologies. I'll contact GigaDevice and explain 
it to them. 

About the free GigaDevice boards, are you (and/or some of your co-workers) 
interested? 

Kind regards, 
Kristof Mulier 



Van: "openocd-devel" <openocd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 
Aan: "openocd-devel" <openocd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 
Verzonden: Maandag 30 november 2020 10:50:40 
Onderwerp: Re: [OpenOCD-devel] GigaDevice support 

Hi Kristof, 

On 22/11/2020 11:57, [ mailto:kristof.mul...@telenet.be | 
kristof.mul...@telenet.be ] wrote: 



Hi Marc, Tomas, Karl and others,

I noticed some activity on Gerrit regarding the Risc-V based GigaDevice 
GD32VF103 microcontroller: [ http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/5839/ | 
http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/5839/ ] I just want to inform all of you that 
GigaDevice forked OpenOCD a couple of days ago: [ 
https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd | 
https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd ] In their fork, they're 
adding support for their chips. It can be a first step to upstream these fixes 
to the official OpenOCD repo. I'm in contact with some engineers at GigaDevice. 
They're very kind and helpful, so please don't hesitate to post 
questions/ideas/issues/... on their GitHub page.

Kind regards,
Kristof Mulier 



On 29/11/2020 16:06, [ mailto:kristof.mul...@telenet.be | 
kristof.mul...@telenet.be ] wrote: 

BQ_BEGIN

2. GigaDevice recently forked OpenOCD and applied some fixes/additions to 
support some of their MCUs (see [ 
https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd | 
https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd ] ). Maybe it's good to 
have a look at this fork and merge their fixes with yours? In any case, it 
would be sad if part of the OpenOCD community keeps working on GigaDevice MCU 
support in the official OpenOCD repo, and other part of the community 
(including the GigaDevice engineers) does the same work in their own fork. I 
think it's good to contact GigaDevice to discuss this - what do you think? I 
can help with putting you in contact with the right people. 


BQ_END

I'm afraid you misunderstand how our project works. 

[ http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/patchguide.html | 
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/patchguide.html ] clearly states: 
------ 
Submitting patches to the OpenOCD Gerrit server 
OpenOCD is to some extent a "self service" open source project, so to 
contribute, you must follow the standard procedures to have the best possible 
chance to get your changes accepted. 
----- 
Please believe me, we (maintainers) have no time to gather changes from every 
fork of OpenOCD on github and everywhere. 
And moreover if we did so it would be quite unfair to the authors of lots of 
changes which are already waiting in the gerrit. 

So if GidaDevice people want to contribute upstream, they can send changes to 
gerrit as anybody other do 
(including ST Microelectronics). If they preferred to create a fork, it's their 
business and we can't do anything about it... 
If you have a contact to "the right people" please forward him this mail. 

Tom 


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