[Buildroot] Bugs cleanup (input requested)

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:48:13 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> > What would this be useful for? I believe we should either find people
> > willing to "adopt" those packages and do the remaining work needed to
> > get them merge, or close the bugs.
> 
> Main goal would be to visually separate 'add-package-foo' enhancements
> (which are relatively easy to close) from other enhancements.

Simply give them a distinctive title, like:

"package addition: <package name>"

> Finding people to adopt the package patches in enhancement requests is
> similar to finding people to adopt patches from the patchwork cleanup
> actions. The amount of developers attending the buildroot developer
> days this year gives me good hopes to actually get to this, but it may
> take some time.

Indeed. I am however for fairly aggressively closing enhancement
requests for package additions that are not very interesting to active
contributors, and unlikely to find an adopter. Things like
open-vm-tools doesn't seem that useful to me, for example :)

Therefore, I would reply in the bug report, ask for either the original
bug reporter or another contributor to adopt the patch, and if no reply
within 2 weeks, close the bug.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com