[Buildroot] [PATCH] add new package fxload

Alex Bradbury asb at asbradbury.org
Tue Nov 6 15:33:45 UTC 2012


On 6 November 2012 08:58, Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen at openwide.fr> wrote:
>>   Also I'll warn you: it may take a while (months) before your patch
>>   is
>> accepted even if you make all necessary correction, and we may even
>> forget
>> to include it in the end.  That's not because we're evil :-) but
>> because
>> our contribution process is still sub-optimal.  Buildroot has grown
>> significantly in number of contributions over the last two years, and
>> our maintainer (Peter Korsgaard) is just saturated.  We're still
>> experimenting
>> with ways to improve the process.
>>
>
> Fair enough, i'm a maintainer for other FOSS projects, so I know how that sort of problem go...
>
> is Peter the only one comitting ? couldn't someone help with simple patches (like updating version of existing packages)

Note it was decided at the recent Developer Days meeting that patches
would be accepted more aggressively. Presumably this means the chances
of patches that have been appropriately cleaned up to meet the
buildroot guidelines are less likely to be accidentally dropped.

Alex



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