On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:54:41PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > The debate about e7501 (dropping or risking broken code in the tree) > reminded me of an idea I had a while ago: > > Do we want to establish a list of boards and their latest successfully > tested revision, and all maintainers/testers for each board that agree > to test changes regularily or on demand (and have the hardware around, > of course)? > > That way, we'd know who to ask if we make sweeping changes that affect > the entire tree.
In theory nice to have, but experience has shown that this list will be ignored and outdated very very soon: http://www.coreboot.org/Confirmed_working_svn_revisions I personally also don't think such a list is _that_ important to have. In theory _every_ revision should work and as soon as someone finds a bug / nonworking revision we quickly bisect and make trunk working again, so not much point in such a list IMHO. > The other list I'd like to start is a document (on the wiki) that > explains tree wide changes with the revision in which they happened, > what happened, and how to replay those changes on a locally modified > tree - esp. those with new boards. Yep, this idea I like very much! > This would help people keeping their local development up to date, and > it helps with finding the cause of problems. > > Basically, everything that affects the whole tree should be documented with: > - Rev in which this change appeared Yes. > - Short explanation what happened (maybe just the URL to the mailing > list archive) Yes. > - Explanation what to change to keep up (incl. scripts, if used) This one is the most important. It should be a "migration guide"-like HOWTO a la "change variable name FOO to BAR", "remove all BAZ occurences in your code" etc. etc. > - Developer responsible for it Not sure if this makes sense. And/or it's visible from the Signed-off-by anyway in most cases. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.randomprojects.org http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
