[Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Jan 6 18:33:59 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corrêa <thiago.correa at gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I offer to do something about both: Take over maintainership and get
>> atual stable releases out the door (if Erik and the other developers
>> agree).
Thiago> I for one welcome our new maintainer overlord.
Thiago> Seriously, for what it's worth, you have my support.
Great, thanks.
Thiago> AVR32 has been recently broken (again). I would much prefer
Thiago> that changes were reverted (termporarily or not) and have
Thiago> AVR32 in this "release" rather than deem it BROKEN.
What changes are those exactly?
Thiago> Maybe we could get a buildbot going. Then we can let many of the
Thiago> developers/uses here contribute cpu cycle to build tests.
Yes, I have been pondering that as well. I have a buildbot running at
work for the platforms we're using with good results, but it's a
question about coming up with varying enough configs to get good test
coverage.
Thiago> The problem with qemu is that it will only cover some
Thiago> platforms that it supports, and unfortunally for me, it
Thiago> doesn't support AVR32 :(
Sure, if you have access to suitable hw, then that's better than qemu,
but if not, then qemu is nice for the platforms it support.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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