Dear Marius,
in message Pine.LNX.4.40.0211041505080.2379-100000@mag.devdep.sysgo.de you wrote:
As the maintainer of the ARMboot project I welcome your effort to merge the PPCboot and ARMboot sources and making them available within the U-Boot project. Here at SYSGO, we are ready to discontinue the ARMboot project in favour of U-Boot, if we can continue our work on the U-Boot source tree.
You are welcome.
Therefore I would appreciate to have CVS write access to the U-Boot's source repository on SF.NET. Efficient Open Source development requires working along the "Release Early, Release Often" scheme. This is severely hampered if all updates are channelled through one person, who might not always be available.
Your argument is valid, but as I already explained to Robert Kaiser, it is not the only valid argument; here is a famous quote:
Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds. - Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
Before I add anybody to the project as developer with write permissions to CVS, I want to make sure that there is at least a minimul level of such "resonance". This includes simple things like conforming to a common coding style, in-advance negotiation of changes with global impact, etc.
From my experience with PPCBoot I can tell you that there are many
talented programmers, but I definitely would not want to give CVS write permissions to more maybe 10% of them.
That does NOT mean that there is any discrimination, or that any con- tributions will be igrnored or turned down - if you want, ask if any of the people who contributed to PPCBoot has reason to complain.
Please start for now by sending patches like anybody else. Normally there will be no significant delay introduced by my moderation. You can be pretty sure that I'll want to add you as developer rather sooner or later. But I think fairness requires to apply the same rules to everybody.
Also, to be honest, it appears a bit rude to me to take our ARMboot sources, and then just cut us off. It seems only natural to me that we
Umm, calm down. On the same base I could argument that you cut us (the PPCBoot guys off) by taking "our" PPCBoot sources and creating an incompatible ARMBoot. But I don't intend to start such a fruitless discussion.
Let's focus on what what we'll have to do in the future.
both continue doing what we have done all along, only with more benefit for all of us.
Definitely.
Please let's keep this an _open_ project, not one where only one member has the power.
Umm... please don't misinterpret my role as a moderator.
It does NOT require write permission in the CVS to contribute to a project, or to get credited for your work.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk