From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:33:59 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: ("Thiago A. =?utf-8?Q?Corr=C3=AAa=22's?= message of "Tue\, 6 Jan 2009 16\:22\:17 -0200") References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <877i58nv1k.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corr?a writes: Hi, >> I offer to do something about both: Take over maintainership and get >> atual stable releases out the door (if Erik and the other developers >> agree). Thiago> I for one welcome our new maintainer overlord. Thiago> Seriously, for what it's worth, you have my support. Great, thanks. Thiago> AVR32 has been recently broken (again). I would much prefer Thiago> that changes were reverted (termporarily or not) and have Thiago> AVR32 in this "release" rather than deem it BROKEN. What changes are those exactly? Thiago> Maybe we could get a buildbot going. Then we can let many of the Thiago> developers/uses here contribute cpu cycle to build tests. Yes, I have been pondering that as well. I have a buildbot running at work for the platforms we're using with good results, but it's a question about coming up with varying enough configs to get good test coverage. Thiago> The problem with qemu is that it will only cover some Thiago> platforms that it supports, and unfortunally for me, it Thiago> doesn't support AVR32 :( Sure, if you have access to suitable hw, then that's better than qemu, but if not, then qemu is nice for the platforms it support. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard