From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:47:42 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Approaching 2014.11-rc1 In-Reply-To: References: <20141026120700.79915afb@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20141026214742.1a92dade@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 Beno?t Th?baudeau, On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:21:17 +0100, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote: > There are many old pending patches that are in the 'new' state and > waiting for replies. A lot of more recent patches have been replied to > and even applied. What are the 'prioritization' rules here? What > should be expected for these older patches? There are no strict rules. However, recent patches tend to get more attention I believe because it's quite certain that they still apply to the latest Buildroot, and also because they are generally actively being pushed. Also, some of the recent patches get quickly applied because they don't raise any specific question, so we can just apply them as is, without much discussion. On the other hand, when a patch requires some discussion, or is not clear, or requires some complicated testing, we tend to delay its review/application, and therefore such patches tend to move progressively toward the end of the queue. When I look at patchwork, I try to look both at recent patches to quickly reduce the length of the queue by applying the "easy" stuff, but also to look at older patches that are generally more "complicated" (if they were not "complicated", they would already have been applied). This is where help from others is welcome. If you see a patch in the queue (even not a patch from you) that you believe is useful, do not hesitate to test/review it and report about that. Or if needed: resend a new version of this patch, updated for the latest Buildroot, after of course testing it. This is the best way to help getting those older patches applied. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com