From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:42:40 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] livetime of boards In-Reply-To: <20131107121327.06404af1@lilith> References: <5278ED18.3050105@denx.de> <20131105203736.GM5925@bill-the-cat> <20131106075049.57EB63814E8@gemini.denx.de> <527B4C80.1090704@denx.de> <527B5F54.4080501@gmail.com> <527B6DCC.80605@denx.de> <20131107121327.06404af1@lilith> Message-ID: <527B7CB0.6040707@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Albert, Am 07.11.2013 12:13, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD: > Hi Heiko, > > On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:39:08 +0100, Heiko Schocher wrote: > > >>>> Right, boards.cfg gets unhandy ... Hmm .. what with the column >>>> "Staus" ... instead of "Active" it would be more informative to have >>>> there the livetime counter, and a single digit saves some characters ;-) > > I'm not sure we need to save characters from boards.cfg. > > Note also that one goal of boards.cfg is to not have multiple files > around that have to remain consistent. Yep, exactly. Thats why I think we could collect this in boards.cfg. > Still : > >>> I can't understand the status field at all, just for the record ;) >> >> Hmm.. good question ... > > There has been some discussion on this already; indeed, the status > field is not really aptly named or defined and should be reworked. > > We could, for instance, have a "Last tested" field instead of the > "Active" field. Yep. >> Ok, two decisions: >> >> - Do we want to collect board testinginformation? > > I'd say we might want to, if only because it tells us if a board > maintainer is still active or not, instead of finding out long later. Yes. >> - Do we want to delete old boards automatically after we do not get >> some test reports after a time intervall? > > I don't, at least, not without a long enough period during which the > board remains in "unmaintained" state. E.g., for each release, the list > of "unmaintained" boards is produced along with the release notes, and > boards which are still "unmaintained" when nearing the next release > (roughly 90 days later) get deleted right before the new release. I proposed: livetime = 4 releases cycle without testing If livetime = 0 -> EMail to board maintainer, please test or board get deleted. If livetime -1 -> board deleted.... bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany