From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:35:35 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Introducing new package type, side to side with generic-package In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20131102113535.685db8fc@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 Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:27:12 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > The problem with buildroot forks is that many good developments in > these forks do not flow back into the mainline buildroot. This is not > only disadvantageous for mainline buildroot, but also for the fork > that has to keep up-to-date with developments in mainline buildroot. I fully agree. > To the community: I was going to propose to create a github mirror for > buildroot to clarify which is the upstream project, but it seems one > already exists: > https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot Yes. I did create this one, and I try to keep it updated from time to time. I pushed the latest Buildroot version to it yesterday. > If I search on github for 'buildroot', I get 227 repository results :-( > Some are just personal repositories, but others are actual forks, like: > > Amlogic-related: > https://github.com/Pivosgroup/buildroot-linux > https://github.com/vDorst/buildroot > > Raspberry Pi: > https://github.com/nezticle/RaspberryPi-BuildRoot > https://github.com/gamaral/rpi-buildroot > https://github.com/huceke/buildroot-rbp > https://github.com/albertd/buildroot-rpi > > GCW0 (open-source gaming console) > https://github.com/gcwnow/buildroot > > BeagleBoard/BeagleBone: > https://github.com/nerves-project/bbone-erlang-buildroot > https://github.com/MaxGalemin/buildroot > > Maybe we should add something to the website or README regarding > forks, something saying that we strongly discourage that and are in > general open in accepting board support in mainline buildroot. But > what do we do with all the defconfigs and supporting files. I think > there was some discussion at BDD about that, but I didn't follow it > well. There wasn't discussion about this at the latest BDD, but we indeed discussed it at the FOSDEM 2013 Buildroot Developer Day. See http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2013. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com