On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 17:02 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 21 May 2009, Rick Altherr wrote: > > At this point we are not introducing new features or > > functionality to SVN. > > Hmm, I was hoping to send a new NAND driver now that it's > basically working ... and some updated board support ...
New drivers should be welcome. I think "new features" here implies works that would affect all targets/boards/etc. No core changes. > The earliest proposal I'd heard for a "freeze" was Zach's > mentioning of wanting to see one about a week from last > weekend ... no particular response, but I was aiming to > get this stuff mergeable ASAP. I have been taking lack of objections as tacit approval, with the caveat that this interpretation might be wrong. :) > Worth IMO drawing a distinction between "core" support > and the rest. One thing that Linux does is recognize > that new drivers can't cause regressions ... so that > they can safely be added later in the release cycle. > While a very strict policy would say "new driver" is > a kind of "new feature", it can also be viewed as a > flavor of bugfix -- <hardware X> didn't work before. > > So I'd agree it's certainly time to work on stability > for the core, no new features/functionality. But that > should leave the door open to other bits, IMO. > > Especially since work on those other bits has been > stalled, off and on, by core stability issues. ;) I think we're on the same page. Cheers, Zach _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
