[Buildroot] Proposal to remove patches from patchwork, or find adopters

jean burgat jeanburgat33 at gmail.com
Mon May 11 14:25:46 UTC 2015


Hello.
I confirm, I use zc706 daily with this patch and I think It's a good thing
to integrate this support.

Jean

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:54 AM, jordi montagne <jordi.montagne66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm always interested by this patch :
> [v2,1/1] board: add support for Xilinx zc706
>
> And someone has added a tested-by.
>
> Jordi
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On April 21th, I sent a personal reminder to all the patch authors who
> > had patches older than 15 days pending in Buildroot's patchwork.
> >
> > Since then, a number of authors have responded to indicate whether they
> > are still interested or not by their patches, which is great.
> >
> > However, a fairly significant portion of the patches have not been
> > given any feedback by their respective authors. I have triaged the
> > answers from the authors, and classified such patches. The list of such
> > patches follows. Note that the authors of such patches are again added
> > in the To: field of this e-mail, to get their attention.
> >
> > I hereby propose to mark all those patches as "Rejected" on May 21 (i.e
> > one month after the reminder), if the authors still haven't expressed
> > interest and nobody else volunteered to adopt the patch. I believe we
> > can't keep for months or years patches that the original author has
> > lost interest in, and nobody else seems to be interested in.
> >
> > Let me know if you agree or disagree with this proposal.
> >
> > Volunteers interested in adopting one or several of the below patches,
> > please speak up.
> >
> > Here is the list of such patches:
> >
> >  * [1/2] Makefile: Fix target-purgelocales
> >  * [RFC,2/2] barebox: Add possibility to build also barebox xloader
> (MLO).
> >  * [1/3] ccache: change compilercheck to use compiler and toolchain info
> >  * [v3,5/5] board: add support for the Fri2 board
> >  * [v7,1/2] adding bootloader option for iso9660 filesystem image
> >  * [v7,2/2] add bootloader isolinux for iso9660 filesystem image
> >  * [v2] Add Marble package.
> >  * [v1] Python script to check package version
> >  * socfpga-cyclone5 Dev board support
> >  * Reduce need for BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER
> >  * [6/7,v3] package/petitboot: Add petitboot, the userspace bootloader
> >  * [7/7,v3] Add powerpc64 petitboot defconfig
> >  * [1/1] libssh2: fix library search path issues when zlib support
> enabled
> >  * [RFC] Separate target-building make targets from image-building make
> targets
> >  * [2/2] ntp: prevent keyword-gen failure during ntp_keyword.h check
> >  * [lua,V4,4/4] lua-iconv: new package
> >  * [1/1] ti-wl12xx_target_scripts: new package
> >  * [v2] wpa_supplicant: Add NL80211 support option
> >  * [v2] qt: add gst-plugins-base dependency to multimedia module
> >  * [1/1] toybox: new package
> >  * Fix selection of bootloaders from $(BR2_EXTERNAL)
> >  * [RFC/PATCH] linux: remove the zImage before rebuild
> >  * [v3] autobuilder: branch support
> >  * [1/1] Fix nfs server for a read only rootfs
> >  * RFC: [PATCH 1/1] check-updates.py: Adds CVE check
> >  * [v3] uboot-tools: Allow users to use uboot's sources
> >  * [1/2] Use package framework to manage skeleton
> >  * [2/2] Change deps between $(TARGET_DIRS) and rootfs-dirs
> >  * [50/51] protobuf-c: bump version
> >  * [51/51] protobuf: bump version
> >  * wireshark: remove RPATH tag
> >  * [V3,4/5] c-icap: new package
> >  * [V3,5/5] c-icap-modules: new package
> >  * [v2,1/4] libfm-extra: new package
> >  * [v2,2/4] menu-cache: new package
> >  * [v2,3/4] libfm: new package
> >  * [v2,4/4] pcmanfm: bump version to 1.2.3
> >  * [v4,1/9] Makefile: don't depend on the umask
> >  * [v4,2/9] Makefile: don't depend on current skeleton/overlay
> permissions
> >  * [v4,3/9] toolchain/helpers.mk: use --chmod on rsync
> >  * [v4,4/9] pkg-generic.mk: don't depend on external package permissions
> >  * [v4,6/9] scripts: mkmakefile: set umask before calling BR's makefile
> >  * [1/1] Fix npm module cross compilation, use up-to-date npm and
> install modules globally
> >  * [1/1] package/iojs: new package
> >  * spidev_test: use the one from the kernel we build
> >  * [1/3] fs/iso9660: allow building a hybrid ISO image
> >  * [3/3] docs/manual/beyond-buildroot: building and testing live-CDs
> >  * [RFC,3/4] opengl-registry: Also provide DRI interface
> >  * [RFC,4/4] xorg-server: Depends on libgl to enable DRI/GLX
> >  * [v2,2/2] python-jinja2: allow build as host-package
> >  * [1/1] qt5base: add option for custom qconfig file
> >  * [1/2,RFC] LLVM: Added package
> >  * [2/2,RFC] mesa3d: Use LLVM as the shader compiler when applicable
> >  * [PATCHv3,for,next,1/2] toolchain-external: improve lib subdirectory
> matching
> >  * [PATCHv3,for,next,2/2] toolchain: create symlink to 'lib' from
> ARCH_LIB_DIR iso fixed lib32/lib64
> >  * xc3sprog: new package
> >  * [1/1] package/x11r7/xapp_xfs: Fix linking error
> >  * linux: adjust fixup logic for ktap
> >  * gettext: add dependency on host-libxml2 for host-gettext.
> >  * [2/2] fs: add custom fakeroot script support
> >  * [1/1] Added package gmock
> >  * [1/1] package/systemd: journald should use volatile storage
> >  * [1/1] gmock: new package
> >  * [1/1] bash: added option to disable locale support
> >  * [v2,1/1] Makefile: add target to clean targetfs
> >  * [v2,1/1] board: add support for Xilinx zc706
> >  * [v2] busybox: add option for standalone telnetd on target
> >  * toolchain-external: fix gdbserver copying for ARC GNU tools
> >  * [2/2] bfin: put the libc link path of the flat shared and sep data
> formats before the sysroot link path
> >  * [RFC,v2,1/5] aarch64: add big endian(aarch64_be) support
> >  * [RFC,v2,2/5] aarch64: ilp32: handle special file name
> >  * [RFC,v2,3/5] aarch64: ilp32: add ilp32 compiler and linker flags
> >  * [RFC,v2,4/5] aarch64: ilp32: add ilp32 build config
> >  * [RFC,v2,5/5] aarch64: ilp32 defconfig examples
> >  * [1/1] busybox: add conditional dependency on libselinux (v2)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas Petazzoni
> > --
> > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> > http://free-electrons.com
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