From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:15:46 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developer Day In-Reply-To: <20111102160349.4afe5935@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:03:49 +0100") References: <20111102160349.4afe5935@skate> Message-ID: <87liryjn65.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 >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, Thomas> Buildroot Developer Day - ELCE 2011 Thomas> =================================== Thomas> The Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 took place from Wednesday Thomas> October, 26th to Friday October, 28th in Prague. The Buildroot Thomas> developers took that opportunity to organize a one day meeting on Thomas> Saturday October, 29th. The meeting took place in the lobby of the Thomas> Clarion Congress Hotel, where the rest of the conference took place. Thanks a lot for the writeup Thomas! Thomas> * The development process has a 3 months cycle, with 2 months of Thomas> development and 1 month of bug-fixing. During the month of Thomas> bug-fixing, Peter only accepts bug fix patches and other minor Thomas> evolutions. This means that the merge of more invasive patches is Thomas> completely stalled during one month and those patches accumulate Thomas> and it is difficult for Peter to merge them all when the next Thomas> development cycle opens. To solve this, Peter will now maintain a Thomas> -next branch during the month of bug-fixing. This way, Peter will Thomas> continue to merge the patches non-acceptable during the bug-fixing Thomas> period, and all those patches would be merged into the master Thomas> branch as soon as the next development cycle starts. Which means I'm running late for 2011.11-rc1 because of ELCE and other real life stuff. I was hoping to be able to put out rc1 today, as I'll be away for the rest of the week - But that's not going to happen. Expect rc1 early next week instead. If you have any pending patches you think should go into rc1, please ping me. Once rc1 is out, then I'll create the -next branch and start merging in new stuff. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard