[U-Boot] U-Boot 2008.10 Release

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hi everybody,

U-Boot v2008.10 has been released and is available from the git
repository and the FTP server.

The Merge Window for the next release is open until Halloween night,
i. e. 14 days remaining.

The next release is scheduled for December 18.

See  http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle  for details.


Note: the "next" branch has been merged into mainline.



A little statistics [1] - changes since release v1.3.4:

Processed 618 csets from 106 developers
47 employers found
A total of 108280 lines added, 56955 removed (delta 51325)

	Compare v1.3.4:

	Processed 593 csets from 101 developers
	41 employers found
	A total of 61927 lines added, 41596 removed (delta 20331)

Developers with the most changesets
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD   76 (12.3%)
Kumar Gala                  54 (8.7%)
Stefan Roese                37 (6.0%)
Wolfgang Denk               30 (4.9%)
Ben Warren                  27 (4.4%)
TsiChung Liew               25 (4.0%)
Matthias Fuchs              22 (3.6%)
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu           22 (3.6%)
Scott Wood                  15 (2.4%)
Guennadi Liakhovetski       14 (2.3%)
...

Developers with the most changed lines
William Juul              32310 (24.6%)
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 13340 (10.1%)
Kumar Gala                9891 (7.5%)
Wolfgang Denk             7380 (5.6%)
TsiChung Liew             5810 (4.4%)
Stefan Roese              5546 (4.2%)
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu         4950 (3.8%)
Guennadi Liakhovetski     4753 (3.6%)
Ben Warren                3264 (2.5%)
Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini  2540 (1.9%)
...

Developers with the most lines removed
Stefan Roese              2717 (4.8%)
Andre Schwarz             1459 (2.6%)
Matthias Fuchs             382 (0.7%)
Ira W. Snyder              151 (0.3%)
Andreas Engel              113 (0.2%)
Timur Tabi                  90 (0.2%)
Andrew Dyer                 80 (0.1%)
Michal Simek                47 (0.1%)
Peter Tyser                 45 (0.1%)
Haavard Skinnemoen          17 (0.0%)
...

Developers with the most signoffs (total 1543)
Stefan Roese               188 (12.2%)
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD  161 (10.4%)
Kumar Gala                 127 (8.2%)
Ben Warren                  94 (6.1%)
Wolfgang Denk               83 (5.4%)
Scott Wood                  73 (4.7%)
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu           72 (4.7%)
TsiChung Liew               49 (3.2%)
Matthias Fuchs              44 (2.9%)
Kim Phillips                40 (2.6%)
...

Top changeset contributors by employer
DENX                       159 (25.7%)
Freescale                  134 (21.7%)
jcrosoft                    76 (12.3%)
Ben Warren                  27 (4.4%)
(Unknown)                   27 (4.4%)
Renesas Technology          25 (4.0%)
ESD Electronics             22 (3.6%)
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid   13 (2.1%)
AMCC                        13 (2.1%)
Atmel                       11 (1.8%)
...

Top lines changed by employer
TANDBERG                  42788 (32.5%)
Freescale                 24717 (18.8%)
DENX                      21579 (16.4%)
jcrosoft                  14586 (11.1%)
Renesas Technology        5149 (3.9%)
Ben Warren                3421 (2.6%)
AMCC                      2939 (2.2%)
Industrie Dial Face       2540 (1.9%)
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 2268 (1.7%)
Matrix Vision             2156 (1.6%)
...

[1] See http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/UbootStat_2008_10 for full
    statistics, and http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/ReleaseCycle
    for links to statistics for earlier releases.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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              Convention of the World Future Society, in Boston, 1977