Arthur Lambert <lambertarthu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I know that my question can be stupid but I am not very familiar with > open source project. If tomorrow someone decides to develop a feature > on ntp. Who can decide if the feature will be integrated to the trunk > of the project ? People have to convince the main guys of the projects > ?
It depends on the actual project at hand, but usually there are some core developers who decide what patches will be accepted. When this would not be the case, the result would quickly be a big mess. Of course when you develop the software for your embedded device, you can always decide to solve the problem for yourself. When you put the patches (sources) somewhere on a website or mail them to anyone who asks, there is nothing that can go wrong. When you only use the binaries inside an organisation and not distribute them (either as software or embedded in a device you distribute) you don't even have to do that. > So I will use the above method to handle my runtime modification. If I > find free time to handle SIGHUP and if I am able to write a proper > code to do it, I will share my changes in this topic. That would be very nice. However, don't be disappointed when somehow refuses to add them to the standard distributed version. I think many users would welcome them very much, but that does not mean the lead developers do. They often have very expressed opinions on things they did not come up with themselves. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
