Hi, I'm starting this discussion because I think we have a lack of maintenance for IP cores.
Opencores provides free hosting for projects. There is no moderator filter applied. So we can have very good, good, bad or empty projects. When an IP is hosted at opencores, it's not easy for a contributor to send patch for it. The only way to get patch applied is to contact the author (am I wrong ?). However, sometimes cores are very old and the author is not taking care of it anymore.... I think we should have a special category in opencores projects where we could have "under control projects". Those projects would have active maintainers and patch would be send on the mailing list. IP core that have a driver in the Linux mainline should of course be in this category. Core in this new category should also strictly follow coding style rules and core files organization but that another story (we already have this http://cdn.opencores.org/downloads/opencores_coding_guidelines.pdf). What do you think about this ? Is it feasable at opencores ? Franck. _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
