[Buildroot] Board defconfigs lacking maintainers

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:35:27 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:

> > If you are interested in one of the below defconfigs, could you please
> > send an update to the DEVELOPERS file to add yourself? Defconfigs not
> > associated to any developer are likely to be dropped at some point in
> > the future, since they will most likely fail to build due to toolchain
> > updates, and nobody will be there to fix those issues.  
> 
> What is required exactly to be considered a board maintainer? Ensure
> that it builds, or that it boots?

We don't have super strict rules. But defconfigs are meant to provide a
ready-to-use initial configuration. So if the configuration is not
ready-to-use because it doesn't boot, it isn't very useful.

So, IMO, we should only have defconfigs that are boot tested by someone.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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