[U-Boot] u-boot release and feature set

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 03:46:29PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> On 08/28/2018 08:11 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> > Thanks Tom for responding,
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:28 AM
> >> To: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha at nxp.com>
> >> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> >> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] u-boot release and feature set
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:48:13AM +0000, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Tom,
> >>>
> >>> Every u-boot release announcement has a very high level feature set.
> >>> I am wondering, if you also maintain detailed feature list  per u-boot
> >> release?
> >>>
> >>> I can see "Statistics" details per release from https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denx.de%2Fwiki%2FU-&data=02%7C01%7Cyork.sun%40nxp.com%7C9b263f9701134c98b63208d60d5d1d5e%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C636711090913158275&sdata=ZJZMJUnx1LUwWMrU5%2F3kbfDo8X0GK%2BfvIqJO%2BObB4aY%3D&reserved=0
> >> Boot/ReleaseCycle but not the feature set.
> >>> May be I am looking at wrong place ☹
> >>
> >> It's been asked from time to time but I am simply bad about it.  I had tried
> >> parsing the git logs every -rc to come up with something more detailed, but
> >> that didn't last.  If more people did signed tags that would provide some
> >> useful information for a detailed changelog.
> >>
> > Feature set is good thing to have per release. It help us in taking decision of upreving u-boot (now or later). 
> > 
> > A suggestion, can we ask feature set details in every pull request from sub-maintainers. 
> > Or
> > A blog can also be maintained, where sub-maintainer can write feature set per pull request. 
> > 
> > Sub-maintainers have better idea what feature they are providing.  
> > Feature set can also be published per sub-system (instead of pick and choose).  
> 
> I think a short description in pull request can work. Parsing git log
> doesn't have the weight on each commit. We don't need to know every
> details of a platform fix, we care more on wider and bigger changes.

I really would appreciate the level of detail Linus' tree gets in signed
commit messages being in the U-Boot tree too.  No, it's not perfect and
it does need someone to make it more digestible, but it's a good
starting point.  And the people that do send me signed tags do a good
job too I think.

-- 
Tom
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