Hi Ariel;
----- Original Message ----- > From: Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> > > Hi Pedro, > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:07:03AM -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> There is currently nothing here, in fact trunk is more up to date. >> Can I start committing stuff or should Andrew do it? > > IMHO only Andrew, as Oracle representative, can commit the patches. The > idea is to ensure that patches are granted by Oracle without the need to > ask for another software grant for this particular cws. I guess this > should be the procedure people should follow if interested in getting > cws code granted by Oracle; the other way is to ask for a software grant > on every file in the cws, but I guess that this won't scale (Oracle will > have to redo the same amount of work they did for the original software > grant). > OK, I can wait. > Concerning this particular case, once Andrew commits the patches, there > should be some agreement on what to do: IMHO, the first thing should be > to ensure that the code builds in Windows, Linux and MacOSX (that cws > didn't originally take into account OS2 nor FreeBSD), otherwise there is > the chance that changes made for OS2/FreeBSD/Solaris/etc end up breaking > something that was actually working in the cws; and it may be then hard > to guess where and why it got broken (just like the boost/stlport case). > I expect the only files that I have to touch are FreeBSD specific so that probably won't be the case here. In any case I would expect the branch won't be merged into trunk until any issue with the FreeBSD and/or Linux/Mac Windows ports are fixed. cheers, Pedro.
