[Info-vax] Open source usage, Was Python and various libraries updated

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/13/2020 10:25 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rh3i1p$hb7$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> * have a person spend some time lobbying open source projects to
>>     include VMS fixes in main distribution
> 
> Why is that necessary?  Does the BDFL decide what fixes get in and which
> don't?

Open source projects vary greatly in how they are managed.

Some projects may hand out commit priv to a public master repo
if you ask.

Some project may have a BDFL that wants to approve every change.

Many projects will be somewhere in between.

I have heard about problems getting VMS changes incorporated many times.
Maybe it has gotten better over time.

I assume some of these people will consider it more relevant to support
a platform if the platform vendor is asking them than if some random
person is.

Arne