[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 00/22] Automatically produce legal compliance info

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 15:18:42 UTC 2012


2012/7/17 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>:
> Le 17/07/2012 16:55, Thomas De Schampheleire a écrit :
>> Op 16 jul. 2012 09:55 schreef "Thomas Petazzoni" <
>> thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> het volgende:
>>>
>>> Le Thu, 17 May 2012 19:32:59 +0200,
>>> Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> here is the third version of the legal-info feature implementation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, this series has been around for a while. I think that the overall
>>> idea has been accepted by everybody, and has been discussed during the
>>> Buildroot Developers Meeting in February.
>>>
>>> Even though I think there might be a few possibilities to make the code
>>> a bit nicer in patch 01/22, that's only internal implementation details
>>> that can be improved at a later point.
>>>
>>> Therefore, I'm now hesitating between those two solutions:
>>>
>>>  (1) Pulling all this in the current master, so that it will be part of
>>>      the next 2012.08 release. The chance of breaking seems fairly
>>>      limited to me, and this code has been around for a while, and I'd
>>>      like us to make progress on this.
>>>
>>>  (2) Be a bit safer, and wait the end of July to merge this into the
>>>      -next branch, once 2012.08-rc1 has been released.
>>>
>>> What's the community opinion on this? At the moment, I'm leaning
>>> towards (1), but I'd like to hear others opinion on this.
>>
>> I'd go for (1). As you say, chances of breaking something is small. Plus,
>> if we can get this into the August release, we'll start getting further
>> feedback right away instead of waiting another three months.
>
> Agreed.
> I'd go for (1) too.

I second (1) too.


-- 
Sam



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