[Buildroot] More maintainers: a live discussion ?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello all,

I've added in Cc I hope all the people who expressed their opinion at
some point in this thread.

Overall my feeling is that we've reached a point where the e-mail
discussion is no longer making much useful progress, so what I would
like to propose is to have a live discussion about the topics that have
been raised: the need for more maintainers, the e-mail vs. pull-request
workflow, CI improvements, etc.

A live discussion would allow everybody to share his point of view, and
hopefully understand better the point of view of others. We could draw
from this discussion a series of conclusions and things to improve in
Buildroot.

It is clear from the discussion that many of us care about the
Buildroot project future, so let's try to work together.

For the sake of defining a suitable date for this live discussion, I've
opened a poll at:

  https://framadate.org/83o5hNwszaihEXOBZHZmJ89A/admin

It would be nice if the interested parties could fill in their
availability.

Thanks in advance for your participation!

Thomas

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:34:31 -0700
Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello;
> 
> Angelo and I were discussing the state of patches today in regards to Buildroot.
> It seems like the project could benefit from a few more maintainers of
> the project.
> We both understand that this is a volunteer project and that we are
> all adults and have a life outside of the project, and as such, we
> can't expect instant reviews on every submitted patch. However, as the
> project continues to grow in popularity, more patches will continue to
> be offered at an ever-increasing rate. This popularity increase is
> excellent news for the project, but also comes at the cost of more
> time and effort in regards to the number of patches and fixes in the
> queue to review and test.
> 
> As such, we would both like to throw our hat in the ring to help
> maintain the project. We both don't have all the time in the world,
> but any amount of help on the project can help alleviate the primary
> maintainers.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Adam
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