From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1092 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2014 15:46:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1073 invoked by uid 89); 7 Apr 2014 15:46:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:46:20 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6D01160D8; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id DEQQaxk1Lj84; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129BC1160D7; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A666E0BF1; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:46:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Michael Matz Cc: Mark Kettenis , aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, sergiodj@redhat.com, emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, bergner@vnet.ibm.com, tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: Vendor branches on sourceware.org's binutils-gdb repo Message-ID: <20140407154619.GJ4186@adacore.com> References: <53406399.9050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140406191404.GC7558@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20140407035120.GA4186@adacore.com> <201404071452.s37EqLB9024528@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 > It's not the infrastructure. It's policies. Some companies have a policy > of not publishing any code outside except through a heavy process, which > might include a white-list of where it may be published/hosted. > sourceware.org is on that white-list already. It may be very painful to > extend that white-list. Companies that do have such a white list are an acceptable exception, IMO, and I would be OK with having their branches in our sourceware.org repository. -- Joel