Dear Robert, just to put a few points right:
In message <20090421070431.gx5...@pengutronix.de> you wrote: > > So our intention was and is: > > 1. Wolfgang has a focus on stability and gradual changes. We respect this > political position because it is a *good* one. This is not quite correct. What I consider important is an evo- lutionary path - this may include bigger changes and reorganizations, but I consider it a bad idea to not provide a reasonable migration path for larger parts of the existing community. > 3. It was an active decision from our team *not* to fork and call it > something else than U-Boot(-v2) when we started. We see that the > U-Boot community is strong, it has long term aims and last but not > least, it has a *great* bootloader. We talked to Wolfgang before > doing so, and Wolfgang's position was in the spirit of "go ahead, > here is a git tree, and let the community decide". This is actually wrong. When we talked about these things, you had already performed a split, and had a up-and-running implementation behind your (kind of closed) doors. It was me who asked you to make this existing code openly available. What I missed, and what I still consider a big chance that was missed, is any public discussion about such a new design - before the actual work was started, or at least before such irrevocable decisions were made as not to consider any form of an upgrade path. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Anything free is worth what you pay for it. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
