From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:13:54 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Regarding my package patches In-Reply-To: <201006010028.26531.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> References: <201006010028.26531.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> Message-ID: <20100601091354.62b68e4b@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Peter, Please use the Buildroot list for this kind of request. I'm Cc-ing the list because the answer to your query contains general information that may be useful to others. On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:28:26 +0200 Peter H?we wrote: > is there still something wrong with my patches? No, I think they went through the review process quite well. There might be some additional comments from Peter Korsgaard (Buildroot maintainer, the only person who can merge patches) who didn't review them yet, but in general, they look good. > Or is there a reason they don't get merged. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with your patches specifically, it it related to the development process of Buildroot. We deliver a release on a fixed schedule, every 3 months: 2010.02, 2010.05, 2010.08. So, when you sent your patches (mid-May), we were very close to the end of the release process for 2010.05 (which has just been released two days ago). So at that time, Peter was not accepting patches adding new features, but only obvious bug fixes. Now that 2010.05 has been released, for the following ~2 months, Peter can merge new features. So we have around late July to send our new features and try to get them merged. That's the reason why I sent my 47-patch-bomb yesterday night. So you can expect your patches fairly soon now, but it may take another week to allow Peter to look at the backlog of pending patches. I hope you understand how our release process works. If you have any question or comment, don't hesitate to ask for additional clarifications. Thanks for your contribution! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com