[U-Boot] U-Boot ARM merge strategy, was: there are non-DM6446 DaVinci chips

[Dirk Behme]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear David Brownell,
> 
> In message <200904250105.41050.david-b at pacbell.net> you wrote:
>> Yes.  The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for
>> example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must
>> not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the
>> Linux process works.  But that's the only example I've
>> seen for how the new u-boot cycles should work...
> 
> Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words  "release  candiate".
> After  the  end  of  a  merge  window,  there is usually still a long
> backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are
> several rounds of debugging / bug fixing needed. IMO it makes  little
> sense to call anything in this state a "release candiate".
> 
> That's why we still have no "rc" in the current release cycle.

Thanks for this info!

This is *exactly* what I meant in the previous mail with "actively 
keep people informed what is going on by posting status info to the 
mailing list".

Thanks and best regards

Dirk