On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:37:19PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > It has recently been brought to our attention that you are offering software > for download... is this the RIAA talking to me?
Sorry, a wee bit formal maybe. Maybe it should have been a : "hey, why are your package not in svn like the rest of them ?" Please don't take it badly, it was not meant so. > > It has recently been brought to our attention that you have 2.6 kernels > > available at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/kernel-image/ > > Is this a crime? Abuse of debian resources? No, sure not. > > But not yet in the official archives, nor do you seem to be part of the > > debian-kernel team, nor are you using the kernel subversion repo on alioth > > to > > hold your m68k kernels. > > > > This mail is thus an invitation to you to join the debian-kernel team, and > > to > > add your 2.6 m68k kernels to the alioth subversion repo, if you would like > > that. > > Oh, I thought I was, at least I added myself to the wiki page some time ago. > Now I have to sign up on another page? Do you need my bankaccount, PIN and > TAN for that? No, just your approval. And get your feeling about it. > Sorry, I am not an svn user, I am not sure if I could make use of that. But > if you officially want to ad me to the kernel team, go ahead, you are the > project manager. Ok. Well, svn is dead easy, especially if you know CVS, and there is even a smallish instruction at the toplevel of the archive. > The 2.6.x images for m68k are going through heavy testing currently. That I > have a bunch of images there does not mean they are working or even have > been tested on all 10 (or is it 12 already?) subarches. This weekend I hope Well, that a package is in the subversion repo doesn'y mean that it is working or even uploaded also. > to be able to assemble my Atari so I can, in theory, do tests on the three > major subarches myself. As soon as I am convinced that 2.6 images are > useable on at least one subarch, I will upload patch and image packages to > the archive. Right now there is still too much change going on, too little > working. Ok, just wanted to invite you to put your stuff in the svn. > Now if you can convince me to use svn for creating my kernel patches. What > benefit do I have over syncing with linux-m68k CVS? Visibility from the other debian-kernel guys maybe ? Also the svn repo is only for patches and the debian plumbing, so its use is a bit different from what i believe you have in the linux-m68k CVS, which is the whole source tree, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther
