From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:04:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions In-Reply-To: References: <20131014113000.73ca82bf@skate> <1642454622.8785613.1381743494806.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> Message-ID: <20131014120410.1b4c05fb@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas De Schampheleire, On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:02:35 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > What I wanted to add in this discussion is this: if there are people > out there that have time for some buildroot development but they have > no clear goal of their own, they can among others choose between > package bumps and fixing autobuild failures. > While there certainly is value in package bumping, I hope that not all > of these people jump onto the bump-train and instead help with the > autobuild failures. We still hope to get to 0 failures at some point, > and bumping packages all the time will most of the time only add new > problems. I definitely agree that looking and fixing autobuilder failures is also a very important goal. Contributions in this area are very very welcome. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com