On corporate PR and proper credit [LWN.net]

On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 3, 2005 8:29 UTC (Wed) by lamikr (guest, #2289)
Parent article: On corporate PR and proper credit

I think this situation has showed how open source software works in it is best not only in the producing code but also for documenting changes and following history.

0) Some people inspired Montavista's Sven-Thorsten Dietrich to submit rt patch.
1) Ingo Molnar got inspider from the patch but found some fundamental problems and desired to create another implementation attempt still reserving the working parts from the montavistas patch
2) Many people including Montavistas Daniel Walker has submitted improvements to Ingos work
3) Altavistas PR gets confused from the source origins but get notified and thanks for the public discussions correct the initial error in their rt docs.

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On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 3, 2005 11:54 UTC (Wed) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]

i'd like to reflect to points #0 and #1:

> 0) Some people inspired Montavista's Sven-Thorsten Dietrich to submit rt
> patch.
> 1) Ingo Molnar got inspired from the patch but found some fundamental
> problems and desired to create another implementation attempt still
> reserving the working parts from the montavistas patch

there were 2 days between the two announcements, and my PREEMPT_RT work has grown out of the "Voluntary Preemption" patches in a process that lasted weeks and months, not two days. So the original patch includes no code and no ideas from MontaVista's original patch simply due to there not being much time for anything than a quick look at MontaVista's code to be able to comment on it.

but despite this somewhat confusing and overlapping initial start, healthy cooperation started between the two projects pretty early on, via the universal communication method of sending me kernel patches ;-) MontaVista sent a couple of useful pieces of their patch to me and is generally one of the top contributors to the PREEMPT_RT patch.