From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:04:55 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2/next 2/4] DEVELOPERS: add initial list of Buildroot developers In-Reply-To: <874m6ah4ju.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1471956466-22338-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1471956466-22338-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <7ada4fd0-8ca3-c59f-bbfd-1ece1f636d73@mind.be> <874m6ah4ju.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20160824160455.598fee91@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:58:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > All of these were really drive-by patches, I don't use any of them regularly. > > And in fact, I think that that will be the case for the majority of the packages > > that are listed now. > > > I'm afraid that maintaining the DEVELOPERS file (pruning dead e-mail addresses, > > removing people that are no longer interested in a particular package) is going > > to take more effort (i.e. more commits) than we actually gain by putting the > > developers in Cc. > > > So for this initial version, I'd suggest keeping just the people that we know > > are active. Basically the people who have responded to this patch :-) And then > > in the contributing documentation, invite people to also update the DEVELOPERS > > file with their entry. > > Yes, I also think we should start small and see how it goes. I disagree, see my reply to Arnout for the reasons why. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com