From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:45:40 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit] legal info: fix saving of host package licenses In-Reply-To: References: <20131112222456.9EC029BB31@busybox.osuosl.org> <20131113084543.2f21dc42@skate> Message-ID: <20131113104540.1ad534e9@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 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:16:49 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > > We were already November, 13th, that is 13th days late than the normal > > -rc1 date, so I definitely support Peter in not having merged all the > > possible pending features in 2013.11. > > > > That's all what time-based releases are for: stopping merging new > > features at some point, knowing that they will anyway be merged in > > -next pretty soon and be part of the following release 3 months later. > > While I understand and agree with this principle for new patches, I > think that patches that have just been waiting to be merged are a > little different, unless there is an expected risk. Version bumps > clearly add risk, but in my opinion the proposed patches do not. Well the proposed patches touch the core package infrastructure, which to me adds more risk than a version bump that may break an isolated package. I guess it's a matter of perception :) > Anyway, it's not that big of a deal. Let's focus now on stabilization > and autobuild fixes. Agreed :) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com