Dear Graeme Russ, > Hi Marek, > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > > Dear Albert ARIBAUD, > > > >> Hi Marek, > >> > >> Comments based on the assumption that we want to sync with the Linux > >> tools. > >> > >> General comment/hypothetical question: would it not be simpler to patch > >> the existing Linux tools in-place so that we can use them on the U-Boot > >> tree? > > > > Yes, it is a good idea. I'll do that. The problem is, replies to my > > patches do documentation mailing lists are slow, that's for one thing. > > > > The other, much more grave and unpleasant is that we're way too far > > behind the DM schedule. I don't know what to do, but since pushing stuff > > upstream goes much slower than I expected, I will soon be left with no > > option other than forking u- boot, finishing the university project and > > -- at the end, without the team -- merge the stuff slowly back upstream. > > If I were in your position, I would not hesitate for a minute to do a > fork.
I do, bloody damnit! Just remember how it ended last time -- the result was a stupid useless piece of crap which was never merged back. Lot of wasted time etc. > The beauty of the FLOSS model of development is that forking is > trivial and if the fork has worthy features, merging later will meet > with general enthusiasm from the community. The merge will probably > happen faster than you think (and may actually happen in parallel so > that when your project finishes, more than half of your work has > already been integrated) See above. > And once you fork, all the bottlenecks of global community approval > disappear. And the fork will be sheets of crap, one on another ... because there'll be no proper review. My position is that I DO NOT WANT TO DO IT ... unless I'm pushed to do so by the circumstances. And I'm reaching that point :'-C > Regards, > > Graeme Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
