[Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Jan 9 09:15:13 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg at web.de> writes:
Markus> I have never objected. But it depends on the type of the
Markus> patch. A simple patch that adds some architecture specific
Markus> configurations (endian or something) to get it working
Markus> belongs to uclibc-buildroot. And even there it can require
Markus> some investigation to update the patch, if the source code
Markus> base has changed. And this investigation should be avoided
Markus> with pushing it upstream.
Markus> But a huge patch that adds lots of optimization code
Markus> (mplayer) definetly belongs to avr32-buildroot.
I agree - Or atleast not in the buildroot I care about. Same with
feature patches, like the ones recently added to U-Boot. We really
need to keep patches to a minimum (and push them upstream) to stay
sane.
I repeat, Buildroot is not a dumping ground for random patches.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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