I-Sourceware, umsingathi wephrojekthi yesofthiwe yamahhala, ujoyine i-Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), inhlangano ehlinzeka ngokuvikeleka okusemthethweni kwamaphrojekthi wesofthiwe yamahhala, ekhuthaza ukuthotshelwa kwe-GPL, futhi inyusa izimali zoxhaso.
I-SFC ivumela abanikelayo ukuthi bagxile ekuthuthukisweni kuyilapho bethatha indima yokuqongelela imali. I-SFC futhi ithatha ubunikazi bezimpahla zephrojekthi futhi ikhiphela abathuthukisi isikweletu somuntu siqu uma kwenzeka icala. I-SFC inikeza abanikeli ukudonswa kwentela, njengoba iwela kubakaki bentela abakhethekile. Amaphrojekthi asekelwa i-SFC ahlanganisa i-Git, Iwayini, i-Samba, i-QEMU, i-OpenWrt, i-CoreBoot, i-Mercurial, i-Boost, i-OpenChange, i-BusyBox, i-Godot, i-Inkscape, i-uCLibc, i-Homebrew, kanye namanye amaphrojekthi omthombo ovulekile acishe abe yishumi nambili.
Iphrojekthi ye-Sourceware ibilokhu ihlinzeka ngeplatifomu yamaphrojekthi omthombo ovulekile kusukela ngo-1998. ukusingathwa kanye nezinsizakalo ezihlobene ezihlobene nokuphathwa kohlu lokuposa, ukusingathwa kwe-Git repository, ukulandelela amaphutha (bugzilla), ukubuyekezwa kwe-patch (i-patchwork), ukuhlolwa kokwakha (i-buildbot), kanye nokusatshalaliswa kokukhishwa. Ingqalasizinda ye-Sourceware isetshenziselwa ukusatshalaliswa kanye nokuthuthukiswa kwamaphrojekthi afana ne-GCC, Glibc, GDB, Binutils, Cygwin, LVM2, elfutils, bzip2, SystemTap, kanye ne-Valgrind. Ukwengezwa kwe-Sourceware ku-SFC kulindeleke ukuthi kudonsele izisebenzi zokuzithandela ezintsha ukuthi zisebenze ekusingatheni nasekudonseleni uxhaso lwesimanje kanye nokuthuthukiswa kwengqalasizinda ye-Sourceware.
Ukuze uxhumane ne-SFC, i-Sourceware isungule ikomidi eliqondisayo elihlanganisa abameleli abayisikhombisa. Ngokuvumelana nesivumelwano, ukuze kugwenywe ukungqubuzana kwezithakazelo, amalungu angadluli kwamabili angaphansi kwenkampani noma inhlangano eyodwa angasebenza ekomitini. (Phambilini, ababambiqhaza abayinhloko ekusekelweni kwe-Sourceware kwakungabasebenzi bakwa-Red Hat, nabo abahlinzeka ngemishini kulo msebenzi. Lokhu kwavimbela ukukhanga kwabanye abaxhasi futhi kwaqubula inkulumo-mpikiswano mayelana nokuthembela ngokweqile kwenkonzo enkampanini eyodwa.)
Source: opennet.ru
