RE: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-05 Thread Wojciech Meyer
te needed build boilerplate. Just mine 2 cents, Wojciech From: Andrew Black [andrew.bl...@roguewave.com] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:48 PM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'? Like Farid, I too a

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-04 Thread Martin Sebor
Stefan, Smaller, independent patches are better for a few reasons: they are easier to review, and easier to back out if they cause trouble. In addition, they'll give you the opportunity to get comfortable with the process. After you submit a few good patches over a period of time we'll also be ab

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-04 Thread Stefan Teleman
OK I will start submitting patches at stdcxx. Breaking them up into smaller chunks will increase the number of patches though. :-) Stay tuned. I don't intend to push changes to the build system - we use gmake to build stdcxx at Oracle. --Stefan On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 16:48, Andrew Black w

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-03 Thread Andrew Black
Like Farid, I too am willing to help process patches for review and submission. Once a track record has been established, someone on the PMC would likely raise a motion to designate you as a committer, as defined at http://stdcxx.apache.org/#committers . This would allow you to make changes dir

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-03 Thread Farid Zaripov
On 03.02.2012 1:52, Stefan Teleman wrote: 2. Someone with stdcxx commit privileges should be part of this reunification (for obvious reasons). It is very discouraging to submit patches knowing full well and ahead of time that they will never make it anywhere. Perhaps the process of submitting p

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 17:57, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > The much larger issue is that the ASF is designed as a collaboration > hub where multiple consumers can be represented.  It is designed to > avoid the need for forks except in radical divisions within communities > where two or more group

Re: [disscuss] Retirement of stdcxx to the 'Attic'?

2012-02-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/2/2012 2:17 PM, Andrew Black wrote: > While I am not completely familiar with the process, I took a couple minutes > to look at > the website for the Attic project ( http://attic.apache.org/ ), and I thought > I'd > summarize the implications of this move as I understand them. Good summary.