[U-Boot] U-Boot git usage model

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Thu Oct 11 20:45:02 CEST 2012


Hi Scott,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:13:33 -0500, Scott Wood
<scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:

> FWIW I think putting policy documents in a wiki, without any  
> guidance on who's supposed to edit it or how changes get approved, is a  
> bad idea.  Why not put policy documents in the git-managed source  
> tree?  And changes would be
> proposed, discussed, and accepted/rejected like any other change.  Plus  
> there'd be at least a chance of a commit message showing rationale.

While I can see the benefits you find in this, is it not based on
the unspoken axiom that the project's policies should necessarily be
subject to a democratic process? Plus... in order for this process to
be put in place, a process should be defined for discussing this
process... argh. :)


> In any case, if this is the policy, we should not be saying that we  
> follow the Linux policy.

Agreed -- see Stephen's reply rightly correcting me re Linux.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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