[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4 V2] doc: kerneldoc: Implant DocBook from Linux kernel

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Marek,

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
>
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> Comments based on the assumption that we want to sync with the Linux
>> tools.
>>
>> General comment/hypothetical question: would it not be simpler to patch
>> the existing Linux tools in-place so that we can use them on the U-Boot
>> tree?
>
> Yes, it is a good idea. I'll do that. The problem is, replies to my patches do
> documentation mailing lists are slow, that's for one thing.
>
> The other, much more grave and unpleasant is that we're way too far behind the
> DM schedule. I don't know what to do, but since pushing stuff upstream goes much
> slower than I expected, I will soon be left with no option other than forking u-
> boot, finishing the university project and -- at the end, without the team --
> merge the stuff slowly back upstream.

If I were in your position, I would not hesitate for a minute to do a
fork. The beauty of the FLOSS model of development is that forking is
trivial and if the fork has worthy features, merging later will meet
with general enthusiasm from the community. The merge will probably
happen faster than you think (and may actually happen in parallel so
that when your project finishes, more than half of your work has
already been integrated)

And once you fork, all the bottlenecks of global community approval disappear.

Regards,

Graeme