Hello All, The last version of sunxi-tools v1.4.2 has been released almost a year ago. So it's a high time to tag a new one soon.
I propose to set a deadline for pull requests one week from now on the next Sunday (24.09.2017), then dedicate a week primarily to testing and improving documentation with the intention to tag the v1.5 release on 01.10.2017 If necessary, we may have follow-up bugfix releases v1.5.1, v1.5.2, ... I can step up and nominate myself as a temporary sunxi-tools maintainer for this particular release if Bernhard Nortmann does not have any objections. As for the features, which should go into this release. First we need to resolve bug https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools/issues/104 People reported that v.1.4.2 has a problem in the compatible version checking code and fails to FEL boot newer U-Boot images with the following error message: sunxi SPL version mismatch: found 0x02 > maximum supported 0x01 You need a more recent version of this (sunxi-tools) fel utility. The other things in the top priority list are the FIT container format support for the main U-Boot binary and TOC0 container format for the SPL. Currently sunxi-tools does not recognize either of these. And these features are needed to get full support for modern 64-bit Allwinner SoCs (A64/H64/H5). We also need to go through the list of bugreports and do something about them. Because way too many people have commit access to the sunxi-tools repository, I would like to see the following rules respected (this is nothing new, I've been following this practice myself since a while ago): 1. All features should go in via reviewed pull requests. One of the reasons for this is that we have travis-ci active, which does the initial basic QA check for any pull request submissions. 2. Never merge any pull requests without giving a 2-3 days notice via a github comment. Because absence of activity on some pull request does not automatically mean that nobody has any objections. But if you get no objections within this short notice period, then go ahead. The timeline is preliminary and we can extend the deadlines a bit if some features need more time (but preferably by no more than one extra week). Do you have any comments or suggestions? -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
