From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 05:36:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. References: User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:35:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 994854923 24.0.109.49 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:35:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:35:23 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9784 Date: 2001-07-11T12:35:23+00:00 List-Id: In article , Emmanuel Briot wrote: > > No, this argument is incorrect for the projects I was speaking about > (GtkAda, GVD, Xml/Ada). > > At least for the first two, the CVS tree is accessible to everyone > read-only > (provided of course they recompile their own version, we do not > distribute > daily binaries). It isn't the case yet for the third one, but then it is > in a very early stage of development. > > I was also speaking of the ada-mode for Emacs. I am happy to report that > I do get some patches for it (almost always from the same 3 or 4 > persons, though). > > So everyone should be able to contribute, and see their patches > integrated (or reviewed) into the CVS tree fast enough. > And this is definitely the way other free-software projects work, even > when there are companies behing them (Gnome/Simian, > Linux/Redhat/Suze,.... ). > > ACT does fund some internal developments on the revenues from supported > customers (after all, that's where GVD started, as well as several other > tools). We also add enhancements requested by these supported customers. > > But if a non-supported user has needs, the best way to see them > integrated is to try and submit patches :-) > > Emmanuel I'm all for supporting and patching GVD and such. I'd love to help. The problem is that my coding skills arent the greatest at the moment. What can I do as a novice Ada developer to help in these projects? I'd help with the Emacs mode, but I'm more of a vi person. ;-> Any info would be appreciated. McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me