Secondary architectures and marketing

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 17:14:34 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Alan Young <ayoung at teleport.com> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Matt Turner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at>
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>>
>>>> After working on the problem, Jay independently came to the exact
>>>> solution Gentoo arrived at before. This, by definition, is duplication
>>>> of effort.
>>>
>>> Yes. That's duplication of effort. And as Jay said. Why did that happen?
>>> Because of the lack of communication. See my other mail. A common axp
>>> patches store would help a lot in this case.
>>
>> What about something like patchwork?
>> http://patchwork.kernel.org/
>>
>> If everyone send patches to the list, at least they'd end up in one place.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> Is patchwork limited to vger lists (linux-alpha)?  Or can it track non-vger
> lists?  If it could monitor the various lists (linux-alpha, redhat-axp,
> gentoo-alpha, debian-alpha, etc.) that could help to bring patches together.

I don't know off hand, but I suspect just vger lists.  One could do
something similar for alpha lists.

Alex




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