Re: [OpenOCD-devel] GigaDevice support

[Tomas V. <to...@us...>]

Hi Kristof,

On 22/11/2020 11:57, kri...@te... wrote:
> Hi Marc, Tomas, Karl and others,
>
> I noticed some activity on Gerrit regarding the Risc-V based GigaDevice GD32VF103 microcontroller:
> http://openocd.zylin.com/#/c/5839/
>
>
> I just want to inform all of you that GigaDevice forked OpenOCD a couple of days ago:
> https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd
>
> In their fork, they're adding support for their chips. It can be a first step to upstream these fixes to the official OpenOCD repo. I'm in contact with some engineers at GigaDevice. They're very kind and helpful, so please don't hesitate to post questions/ideas/issues/... on their GitHub page.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kristof Mulier
>

On 29/11/2020 16:06, kri...@te... wrote:
> *2.* GigaDevice recently forked OpenOCD and applied some 
> fixes/additions to support some of their MCUs (see 
> https://github.com/GigaDevice-Semiconductor/openocd ). Maybe it's good 
> to have a look at this fork and merge their fixes with yours? In any 
> case, it would be sad if part of the OpenOCD community keeps working 
> on GigaDevice MCU support in the official OpenOCD repo, and other part 
> of the community (including the GigaDevice engineers) does the same 
> work in their own fork. I think it's good to contact GigaDevice to 
> discuss this - what do you think? I can help with putting you in 
> contact with the right people.
>

I'm afraid you misunderstand how our project works.

http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/patchguide.html clearly states:
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*Submitting patches to the OpenOCD Gerrit server*
OpenOCD is to some extent a "self service" open source project, so *to 
contribute, you must follow the standard procedures* to have the best 
possible chance to get your changes accepted.
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Please believe me, we (maintainers) have no time to gather changes from 
every fork of OpenOCD on github and everywhere.
And moreover if we did so it would be quite unfair to the authors of 
lots of changes which are already waiting in the gerrit.

So if GidaDevice people want to contribute upstream, they can send 
changes to gerrit as anybody other do
(including ST Microelectronics). If they preferred to create a fork, 
it's their business and we can't do anything about it...
If you have a contact to "the right people" please forward him this mail.

Tom