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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Otavio,

On 28 July 2015 at 12:06, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sure but it has issues and pull requests. Likely what we need.
>
>> I've sent a request to kernel.org, and copied you.
>
> Great :-)

It doesn't look like Greg is keen. I'll take a look at github.

Regards,
Simon