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[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot Release Cycle - Merge Window now open.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hello everybody,

one of the problems we have with the U-Boot  development  process  is
it's Release Cycle. To be precise, the non-existence of such a thing.

This will be  changed  now.  Like  with  many  other  things,  U-Boot
development  will  from  now  on  follow the Linux model of a release
cycle. That means:

* We will have U-Boot releases at a fixed interval.
* The release interval shall be (approximately) 2 months.
* Immediately following each release, there will be a "merge window".
  While this merge window is open, new features can be added to the
  U-Boot source tree.
* After the merge window closes, no new features may be added to
  allow for a release candidate phase which is intended to fix bugs
  and regressions.

To avoid having merge windows open for both U-Boot and Linux  at  the
same time, we will start with an offset of one month, i. e. the first
U-Boot  release following this new development cycle is scheduled for
end of September 2007.

The merge window for this release opens *NOW*.
It ends on August 17, 2007.


See also http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/ReleaseCycle



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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[Jon Loeliger]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:23, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> one of the problems we have with the U-Boot  development  process  is
> it's Release Cycle. To be precise, the non-existence of such a thing.
> 
> This will be  changed  now.  Like  with  many  other  things,  U-Boot
> development  will  from  now  on  follow the Linux model of a release
> cycle. That means:

Wolfgang,

This is great news!  Thanks!

> The merge window for this release opens *NOW*.
> It ends on August 17, 2007.


Excellent!  As you already are, I would like to
see the -testing branch pulled to mainline.

I would also like to work toward a pull of the -usb,
-mpc85xx, and -libfdt repositories as well.  Is there
any word from the maintainers of those pieces?

Thanks,
jdl

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[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jon,

in message <1186085699.29336.22.camel@ld0161-tx32> you wrote:
>
> This is great news!  Thanks!

You are welcome. Sorry it took so long, but I explicitely  wanted  to
*not* have both U-Boot and Linux merge windows open at the same time,
so I deliberately waited a full month...

> > The merge window for this release opens *NOW*.
> > It ends on August 17, 2007.
> 
> Excellent!  As you already are, I would like to
> see the -testing branch pulled to mainline.

You, me, and others...

> I would also like to work toward a pull of the -usb,
> -mpc85xx, and -libfdt repositories as well.  Is there
> any word from the maintainers of those pieces?

Me too. 


Jerry, Andy and Markus - please comment...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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If it happens once, it's a bug.
If it happens twice, it's a feature.
If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.

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[Markus Klotzbücher]

Dear Wolfgang and Jon,

Sorry I've been so unresponsive so far, I'm still in the progress of
catching up after vacation.

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

>> I would also like to work toward a pull of the -usb,
>> -mpc85xx, and -libfdt repositories as well.  Is there
>> any word from the maintainers of those pieces?
>
> Me too. 
>
> Jerry, Andy and Markus - please comment...

Yes, I too want usb to be merged during this merge window. As far as
have seen no bugs were reported. Please allow me a couple more days to
finish things and send a merge request.

Thanks everyone.

Best regards

Markus Klotzb?cher

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[Jerry Van Baren]

Markus Klotzb?cher wrote:
> Dear Wolfgang and Jon,
> 
> Sorry I've been so unresponsive so far, I'm still in the progress of
> catching up after vacation.

Ditto.

> Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:
> 
>>> I would also like to work toward a pull of the -usb,
>>> -mpc85xx, and -libfdt repositories as well.  Is there
>>> any word from the maintainers of those pieces?
>> Me too. 
>>
>> Jerry, Andy and Markus - please comment...
> 
> Yes, I too want usb to be merged during this merge window. As far as
> have seen no bugs were reported. Please allow me a couple more days to
> finish things and send a merge request.

s/usb/fdt/

Ditto.

> Thanks everyone.
> 
> Best regards
> Markus Klotzb?cher

Ditto. :-)

I see Kim has issued a pull request on  his fix via the 83xx repo, which
fixes a very serious (but fortunately non-fatal at the moment) error.
That is very good.

Reference: "[PATCH 1/3] mpc83xx: fix 8360 and cpu functions to update
fdt being passed"
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/30343>

I will rebase against the main repo and check things out.

gvb

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[Robert Schwebel]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:23:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> one of the problems we have with the U-Boot  development  process  is
> it's Release Cycle. To be precise, the non-existence of such a thing.

Good idea; I assume we'll follow that scheme with the 2.0 branch.

We made some progress over the last weeks (mostly bringing some real
life hardware up, in order to make it possible that people start playing
with that codebase). So having regular 2.0 snapshots (no stable releases
for now, but anyway) in sync with U-Boot 1.x releases sounds like a good
plan.

Robert
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