http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578019 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578019#c16 --- Comment #16 from Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> 2010-07-19 20:33:53 UTC --- (In reply to comment #15)
A legitimate question. (As seen from Novell,) by upstream I would refer to the program source provider, that is, the alpine source or a community spinoff thereof (such as, but not limited to, re-alpine).
From all of this, I see three separate projects. Alpine (as still maintained by
I consider Re-Alpine a project different from Alpine. Re-Alpine, until a few days ago was a dead project (there was no action). Recently there has been some upgrades :). A release was announced at the end of last year, which was postponed, apparently until August this year. I have no idea what it will contain (and I follow Re-Alpine very closely!) The point I am trying to make is the following. My patches are for Alpine, not for Re-Alpine. Re-Alpine is a svn version of Alpine (version 1266, unreleased as Alpine). My patches will always be for Alpine, not for Re-Alpine. I do not use Re-alpine, nor plan to switch, or write/adapt my patches in the future for Re-Alpine. When I tried to help the Re-Alpine project I was sent away, since I explicitly said that I could not work with the changes they were making to the build system. Unfortunately they did not listen, so I left the project, since there was no point in staying (I could not help anyway - which is the reason I say "I was sent away"). I discussed with Andraz Levstik about the possibility to include my patches in Re-Alpine a long time ago, and I asked him not to include them (exactly due to licensing issues). He agreed. the University of Washington), which has very few updates, Re-Alpine, which is a mirror of the Alpine svn, and finally my patches for *ALPINE*. The common denominator of these projects is the public svn. I update my patches based on the contents of the svn, but not based on the content of the re-alpine git. I'd rather leave the source code of Alpine "as is", and differentiate it explicitly from my project. I am also sure that the University of Washington prefers that too. I do not expect any of this to change in the future either, so I suspect my patches will never make it to the source code of Alpine, and will be left as such. Given the situation today, I prefer if it stays like that. -- Eduardo -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.