On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 12:55 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'm looking for people willing to test u-boot targets on an ongoing > basis for various platforms. While I have a handful of boards I can test > on, I don't have the hardware or perhaps more importantly, the time to > always test on all of them. > > I hope this sounds like a reasonable approach to folks... > > I'm thinking of making this a requirement for enabling future boards in > the debian u-boot packages, otherwise we might end up shipping packages > which include support for broken boards. And certainly a requirement > with requests for patches not yet mainlined...
I think this is a very reasonable requirement, even for platforms which have been mainlined. But as you say, even more so for non-mainlined boards, where in addition it would seem reasonable to me for the named person to also take some responsibility for rebasing any related patches. The debian-kernel team requires that all patches (with few exceptions) be backports from mainline Linux. IME getting a new platform upstreamed to u-boot was not any harder than getting something into Linux. So I don't think it would be unreasonable to apply a similar rule to the u-boot packages. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
