From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:59:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Board defconfigs lacking maintainers In-Reply-To: References: <20180304231547.7ed3f5af@windsurf.home> Message-ID: <20180305155954.1655ce43@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:35:27 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote: > > If you are interested in one of the below defconfigs, could you please > > send an update to the DEVELOPERS file to add yourself? Defconfigs not > > associated to any developer are likely to be dropped at some point in > > the future, since they will most likely fail to build due to toolchain > > updates, and nobody will be there to fix those issues. > > What is required exactly to be considered a board maintainer? Ensure > that it builds, or that it boots? We don't have super strict rules. But defconfigs are meant to provide a ready-to-use initial configuration. So if the configuration is not ready-to-use because it doesn't boot, it isn't very useful. So, IMO, we should only have defconfigs that are boot tested by someone. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://bootlin.com