[U-Boot] U-Boot git usage model

Albert ARIBAUD
2012-10-11T18:45:02Z

Hi Scott,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:13:33 -0500, Scott Wood
<scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:

> FWIW I think putting policy documents in a wiki, without any
> guidance on who's supposed to edit it or how changes get approved, is a
> bad idea. Why not put policy documents in the git-managed source
> tree? And changes would be
> proposed, discussed, and accepted/rejected like any other change. Plus
> there'd be at least a chance of a commit message showing rationale.

While I can see the benefits you find in this, is it not based on
the unspoken axiom that the project's policies should necessarily be
subject to a democratic process? Plus... in order for this process to
be put in place, a process should be defined for discussing this
process... argh. :)

> In any case, if this is the policy, we should not be saying that we
> follow the Linux policy.

Agreed -- see Stephen's reply rightly correcting me re Linux.

Amicalement,
--
Albert.