[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] patman: add distutils based installer

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Jul 28 20:04:38 CEST 2015


Hi Otavio,

On 28 July 2015 at 11:54, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> On 28 July 2015 at 11:45, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> On 23 July 2015 at 03:36, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> It could be treated the same way the git project treats gitk and
>>>>> git-gui. The sources are still included in the main project and
>>>>> distributed along with the rest of it but they are merged from an
>>>>> external upstream where the real development happens. The upstream
>>>>> project is also free to make releases on whatever schedule they
>>>>> determine (although these days there isn't much development going on
>>>>> in for gitk/git-gui).
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a useful model. However there are so few patches to
>>>> patman - is it worth it?
>>>
>>> Sure it is; I have asked it in past I think.
>>>
>>> I would like to have it in Debian, Arch and other linux distros and
>>> get more people using it to manage patch series. It is hard to explain
>>> it can be used for other project it being inside U-Boot source code.
>>
>> OK so if we do this, what's the best way to get a repo and a mailing list?
>
> I would try github or kernel.org if possible.

I can't see mailing lists in github.

I've sent a request to kernel.org, and copied you.

Regards,
Simon


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