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

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Fri May 29 15:08:16 UTC 2015


On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 6, 2015 11:53:53 PM CEST, 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:
>
>>* [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
>
> Sorry for my late reply.
> These patches are still relevant and I think they should be applied. I
> recall you telling me on IRC that you had an odd feeling about the
> entire external toolchain directory matching, but I think it's the
> reality we're in and there is nothing extraordinary going on in these
> patches so that it could be a basis to reject them.
>
> I just checked and they still apply on top of master.
>

What is your opinion here? Is there anything I can do?



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