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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > directly to subversion without assistance. Do note that in order to be > designated as such, you will need to have a Contributor License Agreement ( > http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt ) on file with the Apache > foundation. If you are being paid to perform this work, the company you work > for will likely need to have a Corporate Contributor License Agreement ( > http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt ) on file. > > If we are trying to revitalize this project, there are a few things I > personally would/would not like to see in the patches: > * I would not like to see major changes to the build infrastructure at this > time. One of the goals of this project has been portability, and this > includes the build infrastructure. My understanding is that gmake is > considered to be more portable than some of the alternatives (cmake, ant). > * I would like to see tests added to verify any library changes. Ideally the > new tests will pass on most platforms, though we don't currently have an > automated test mechanism in place. If any existing tests are incorrect, > commentary for the change about why they are broken would be appreciated. > * Changes destined for the 4.2.x branch should have forwards and backwards > binary compatibility. > * Changes destined for the 4.3.x branch should have backwards source > compatibility. > > --Andrew Black > > > On 02/03/2012 03:04 PM, Farid Zaripov wrote: >> >> 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 patches could be >>> somewhat less of a "process". Just my 0.02. --Stefan >> >> >> Stefan, if you split the all your patches to a set of small finalized >> changes and submit them through a set of corresponding issues in JIRA, I >> promise I will process them all one by one. >> At the moment I don't see any issues, reported by you. Sorry, but >> process is a process. >> >> Farid. >> > -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. [email protected]
