On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:36 AM >> To: Angolini Daiane-B19406; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] maintainer for imx53qsb >> >> Hi, >> >> Are there any published maintainer procedures/responsibilities? > > I´m happy you have questioned that! > >> >> I realize it might be best to not be too stringent on these requirements, >> but on the other hand it seems as though maintainers are free to define >> whatever they feel is enough, which might be "nothing" ;-) >> >> More seriously, a maintainer could decide booting core-image-minimal and >> seeing a login prompt is enough. This would be setting the bar quite low. > > The maintainer is the person that will have the Minerva/casting vote when we > face a deadlock. > > S/he is responsible to keep the things working. For those boards in > meta-fsl-arm-extra, it´s > much more easy to understand, because maintainer is the one who keeps kernel > updated, u-boot tested/working. > > For meta-fsl-arm boards it´s lightly different, as 'who' keeps kernel updated > is Freescale. > > It´s not a matter of "what is supported", because anyone can add support for > anything. But a matter of > keeping the gears spinning. > > >> >> Maybe for each board a matrix could be maintained whereby the maintainer is >> free to do as few or as many things from the list of potential items? >> At the very least, we'd have a better definition of what "maintained" >> would mean for each board. Even better: if instructions were available >> describing how to build and test each line item, then everyone could >> benefit! > > In addition, we want maintainers help for some "maintainer work" we face in > our day-by-day, as example: > Keep release notes updated > Keep test cycle updated > Keep the most usual images building and booting > > You can see here [1] the goals we had in last release (1.6). It´s supposed > that *at least* the maintainer > have tested all those items for her/him board. > > When a build error is faced, the maintainer will "fix" it. For those guys > with kernel control (meta-fsl-arm-extra) > is expected that they properly fix the kernel issue (when it´s a kernel > issue). But anything out of our control > should be work-rounded anyway. > > > [1] http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/1.5/index.html#goals > > > Otavio, did I miss anything?
No; I think this is a good summary of the duties involved in being a board maintainer. Trevor, are you up for the task? -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
