From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:47:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/11 v3] Rework the gettext handling In-Reply-To: <201209201850.56066.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1347836276-24262-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <505A4CD8.80900@mind.be> <201209201850.56066.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20120920204730.75b79901@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:50:55 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > My goal with the series was not to fix anything (except for the required > fixes), but rather to improve on the existing infrastructure. Agreed. > Fixing anything that would break after the series, and that was already > broken before the series, was not the goal. This can come in a later > series [0], if such fixes are needed. > > [0] Admitedly, it could (should?) even come before the series, but fixing > packages is really different from improving the infrastructure. > > That being said, we now have a few venues to deal with this series: > 0- drop the series entirely, > 1- postpone this series until after all packages have been fixed, > 2- finalise the series so it is fully agreed-on, apply it, then fix > packages, > 3- get a benevolent dictator to agree the whole series for good, > apply it, then we can fix the packages, > 4- apply all agreed-on patches (eg. 1-4, 6), then fix all packages, > then refine/drop currently not agreed-on patches. > 5- apply all agreed-on patches (eg. 1-4, 6), then refine/drop the > rest of the series, apply it, and fix packages, > > Hopefully, we all agree that 0 is out-of-question. ;-) > > Although 1 would be the best technical solution, it is (IMHO) not the > best from a practical point of view. > > Going with 2 means another long round-trip, as there is at least one > opposition to this series (although I hope Thomas can be coerced into > approving the series! ;-p ). > > 3 is not the best course of action, we still have not reached consensus > on the technical (de)merits of the series (specifically the end of it). > > I do not have a strong feeling between 4 and 5, although, from a personal > position, I'd say we should go for 5, so I can get rid of this series > entirely (and switch to other interesting stuff! ;-) ). Peter, can you please apply now patches 1 to 8 in this series, so the volume of the series reduces and we can more easily work on an agreement for the remaining patches? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com