[rtems commit] New.

[Gedare Bloom]

I'd say let's wrap this up, but we have no formal way that I know of
to make a decision about this.

-Gedare

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 10:05 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> why do we all have this single commits with this simple "New." commit
>> message?
>>    If I had added the generated files, then I would have added them all in
>> a
>> single commit.  Before this I would have placed this commit on a private
>> branch
>> for review.
>>
>> You work now on a release branch.  I don't think there was sufficient
>> discussion about this change.  As far as I am aware you are the only
>> person in
>> favor of adding the generated files.
>>
>> This is not a simple change.  It adds a lot of files.  It changes also a
>> practice in RTEMS that was there for several years now.  That is no
>> generated
>> files in the repository (one exception is the preinstall.am).
>>
> It also impacts at least the following:
>
> + user documentation, tutorials, wikis, etc.
> + bandwidth requirements for rtems.org and users
> + disk space requirements for rtems.org and users
>
> This change could have happened any time in the past 15 years.
> Projects using every other source code control system have
> at one time placed generated files in their tree. We stuck with
> not doing it and built up years of practice expecting a bootstrap.
>
> I personally do not care whether they are in or out technically.
> That is a community decision.
>
> What I do care about is the utter abuse of process and community
> reflected in how this major change was committed with no discussion,
> review, patch squashing, etc.
>
> I am sorry Ralf but this is another example where I have to question
> your judgement on knowing when it is OK to make a change with
> or without discussion. You have repeatedly thrust controversial
> changes on the project with no discussion.  If anyone else had done
> this, you would have publicly flogged them.
>
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