From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:15:09 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture In-Reply-To: References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140701221509.26996537@free-electrons.com> 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 Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:35:13 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > While I have no trouble at all with the deprecation of avr32, the > timeline you propose deviates from the usual deprecation timeline. > When I introduced the BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_XXXX symbols, we proposed > to take one year (four buildroot releases) as deprecation time, so > deprecating avr32 2014.08 would mean being able to remove it by > 2015.08. > > I'm ok with explicitly stating the removal happening already in > 2014.11, contrary to the usual timeline, provided there is a consensus > with other buildroot developers. Yes, I know that the proposed timeline for the removal of AVR32 support deviates from the usual guideline of a one-year notice. However, AVR32 has become such a pain to maintain, with apparently no users caring about it, that I don't feel like supporting that for one more year. I agree that there should be a consensus amongst the Buildroot developers about this, so I'm hoping to collect a bunch of Acked-by on this patch. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com