[U-Boot] livetime of boards

Heiko Schocher
2013-11-07T12:50:07Z

Hello Wolfgang,

Am 07.11.2013 13:12, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Heiko,
>
> In message<527B7EE6.4030307@denx.de> you wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... I hope we get a lot of such EMails ... and think, this is not
>> a big problem ... Or, maybe, if we get a lot of such EMails, maybe we
>> open a u-boot-testing list?
>
> NAK. Mailing lists are good for some kind of information - especially
> for such information that is read by humans.
>
> All you want to do here is feed a database with data. This is not
> what mailing lists were made for, so we should really use a more
> appropriate interface.

Ok. But this status report can be in readable text format ;-)

>> See my proposal for the livetime counter:
>>
>> livetime init value n (n=4)
>> livetimer decrement on every new release
>> livetimer set to n, if in release cycle comes a test report
>> livetimer == 0 -> EMail to board maintainer, board reached end of live in
>> mainline, please send test report.
>> livetimer == -1 -> board get deleted
>
> This is too simple in one respect (as you are not including
> information that may be vital, like which exact commit ID has been
> tested, or which tool chain has been used to build it).

Ok.

> Also we should probably not only allow for positive test reports, but
> also allow to report failures (to mark board support as broken).

Yep, this will set livetime = 0 -> EMail to board maintainer ...

> All this cannot be done in boards.cfg .
>
> And there is no need to as long as we provide tools to query for any
> information we might be interested in.

Ok, then we must define this way ...

bye,
Heiko