[U-Boot] livetime of boards

[Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>]

Hello Albert,

Am 07.11.2013 12:13, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> Hi Heiko,
>
> On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:39:08 +0100, Heiko Schocher<hs@denx.de>  wrote:
>
>
>>>> Right, boards.cfg gets unhandy ... Hmm .. what with the column
>>>> "Staus" ... instead of "Active" it would be more informative to have
>>>> there the livetime counter, and a single digit saves some characters ;-)
>
> I'm not sure we need to save characters from boards.cfg.
>
> Note also that one goal of boards.cfg is to not have multiple files
> around that have to remain consistent.

Yep, exactly. Thats why I think we could collect this in boards.cfg.

> Still :
>
>>> I can't understand the status field at all, just for the record ;)
>>
>> Hmm.. good question ...
>
> There has been some discussion on this already; indeed, the status
> field is not really aptly named or defined and should be reworked.
>
> We could, for instance, have a "Last tested" field instead of the
> "Active" field.

Yep.

>> Ok, two decisions:
>>
>> - Do we want to collect board testinginformation?
>
> I'd say we might want to, if only because it tells us if a board
> maintainer is still active or not, instead of finding out long later.

Yes.

>> - Do we want to delete old boards automatically after we do not get
>>     some test reports after a time intervall?
>
> I don't, at least, not without a long enough period during which the
> board remains in "unmaintained" state. E.g., for each release, the list
> of "unmaintained" boards is produced along with the release notes, and
> boards which are still "unmaintained" when nearing the next release
> (roughly 90 days later) get deleted right before the new release.

I proposed:

livetime = 4 releases cycle without testing
If livetime = 0 -> EMail to board maintainer, please test or board
get deleted.

If livetime -1 -> board deleted....

bye,
Heiko
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