Re: n th's try to ask for help / non-X86 arch

On Monday 08 March 2004 08:34, Dariush Pietrzak wrote:

Hi Dariush,

>  If you want help, then why did you shut access to patchsets? How do you
> expect people to follow development if you try so very hard to make it
> harder?
That is not my intention at all.

>  This is basicaly 'closed-source' development, with source being individual
> patches, and we're given only result of 'compilation'.
>  Me, and few other asked several times for patchsets, and only answer we
> heard was 'NO', without even an explenation...

well, please let me explain:

broken-out patches (tar.bz2 && tar.gz) were available for a _long_ time during 
wolk3.x development. I decided to make them not public for wolk4.x if there 
is no help. Imagine, I spend hours^Wdays searching patches, fixing patches, 
creating patches just to see tons of people downloading it, using some or 
many of the patches just to create an own "WOLK" and let me alone with the 
real WOLK, w/o reporting errors in patches, wrong code or whatever. I don't 
have a problem with that when people do this and _report_ errors with the 
patches so I can fix them up in the WOLK tree.

I was very disappointed the last year and got even more disappointed for 
questions like "when do you upgrade to 2.4.23, .24, .25" or whatever. Well, 
most people do not know how hard that is to update to a recent kernel when 
you've spent weeks on merging O(1), rmap, grsec and such stuff so they _work_ 
together nicely.

Now there is 2.6 and a complete new WOLK. I've changed my opinion about 
broken-out patches (every kernel.org mirror has 2.6-WOLK broken out patches 
in my people directory (mcp)). I'll see if something changes in development.

ciao, Marc



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