From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:45:59 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot developer meeting summary Message-ID: <54FB1D37.8030700@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi all, The buildroot developer meeting is already more than a month ago, and I've finally gotten around to writing a summary of the outcome. You can find it on [1]. The report of the meeting is written at [2]. This section summarizes the main points and conclusions. Patches The main result of this developer meeting has been a big patchwork cleanup. We managed to reduce the number of pending patches in patchwork from about 350 to about 200. A good deal of patches have been rejected (with an explanation why), but also many patches have been applied after some clean-up. Some of the patch series required some discussion to decide how to continue with them. Normally the conclusions should have been posted on the list, but you can also out the full report. GSoC and money Thanks to GSoC, buildroot now has some money. There is now an accounting section on this wiki to keep track of where it comes from and how it is spent. Since founding a non-profit seems to be too much effort, the money is currently held by Yann E. Morin. Some ideas were posted for the next GSoC. As it turns out, however, we've not been accepted as a mentoring organisation for GSoC'15. Better luck next year! Help text and README Due to a patch series to rewrite the 'make help' output by ThomasP., we have discussed what we really want to show where. The conclusions are: * Keep one big 'make help', no 'make foo-help'. Order the output in a more logical way. * Create a new 'make list-defconfigs' to reduce the output of 'make help'. Add a FAQ entry that refers to this. * The README should be rewritten so it is small and refers to other documentation. Arnout was volunteered to do this. Regards, Arnout [1] http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2015#Summary_and_conclusions [2] https://lite5.framapad.org/p/buildrootfosdem15 -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F