[U-Boot-Users] PATCHES for next Merge Window

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Nov 20 21:59:34 CET 2007


On 11/20/07, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:26:27 +0100
> Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> > So my idea is really to have a very  short  semi-open  merghe  window
> > (just  long  enough  until  Jean-Christophe has the drivers reorgani-
> > zation patches ready - he said that's Friday.
> >
> > So assume we will have a 1.3.1-rc1 by Sunday, and 1.3.1 released by
> > Friday next week. Or so - if nothing goes wrong.
> >
> > And then we formally open a real new merge window.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Not that I have any stake in this, but that seems overly cautious.
> Just declare that the driver reorganization/makefile changes are the
> first thing to be merged and make the maintainers rebase after.
>
> I don't see a need for a whole separate release.

Personally, I'm not at all concerned about it.  There isn't a lot of
risk in my changes; just merge pain if it's done out of order.  I'm
not opposed to a quick merge cycle for these changes, but I don't
think it's strictly necessary either.

Cheers,
g.

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