From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:01:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot LTS? In-Reply-To: <20151030145803.6aeb3c2d@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:58:03 +0100") References: <563336DE.4040809@2net.co.uk> <20151030145803.6aeb3c2d@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87eggb1keu.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, >> I would be interested in any comments on the above. What do Buildroot >> users do in practice? Does any 3rd party offer LTS support for Buildroot? > There is currently no long term support policy for the community > maintained Buildroot. We have discussed this topic a few times during > our meetings, as I remember raising the question of whether we should > maintain for a longer period certain specific releases of Buildroot, at > least to take care of the security problems. > So far, our common reaction was that it is rather time-consuming to do > and also not very exciting for volunteers to do. It is the type of > topic that would really be helped if there was some funding from > companies. Indeed, so far nobody has volunteered to do such work. > That being said, if there is sufficient interest for this, and > developers willing to look at the security issues and submit the > corresponding patches, I'm sure we'd be happy to create such LTS > releases from time to time. Certainly. We already do bugfix releases (like 2015.08.1) for important issues discovered after release. I have no problems doing more of those, but people have to submit patches and/or point out what patches on master also applies to the bugfix release. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard