On 09/12/2014 05:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Dinh, > > In message <54136276.6040...@opensource.altera.com> you wrote: >> >>> To get patches or new code into U-Boot mainline, these have to be >>> submitted to the U-Boot mailing list (among other purposes for >>> archival and that they get stored in the patchwork database). Then a >>> peer review takes place, and the responsible custodian finally applies >>> these patches to the respective custodian repository. Finally, he >>> sends a pull request to the next higher custodian - in case of SoCFPGA >>> that would be Albert as ARM custodian. >> >> Does the above process differ from the Linux community process in >> anyway? If not, then I've been doing the same for the Linux support for >> SOCFPGA on the rocketboards. The ARM-SOC maintainers have been pulling >> from the git repo at rocketboards for quite some time now. I think I can >> probably do the same for u-boot. > > I think we are a bit more critical here in U-Boot. The repositories > we pull from are maintained by community-assigned custodians, who have > a proven track record not only as experienced developers, but also for > working with the community and being able to negotiate conflicts. > > If Vince gets appointed as custodian for socfpga, there should be no > problem for him to automatically synchronize your u-boot-socfpga-next.git > repository with the U-Boot u-boot-socfpga one.
Then I vote for myself as the custodian for u-boot-socfpga. By the way, what is the difference between a Maintainer and a custodian? I don't understand why if Chin-Liang and myself are listed as Maintainer(s) for SOCFPGA, we would have to rely on Marek to pull in our patches for SOCFPGA? > > On the other hand - what exactly is the code you are referring to in > u-boot-socfpga-next.git ? At the moment, I see this: > > -> git clone > git://git.rocketboards.org/u-boot-socfpga-next.git > Cloning into 'u-boot-socfpga-next'... > warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. > Checking connectivity... done. > Yes, this is the repo will be the one that we will use. I have a couple of other things on my plate at the moment and will populate this repo shortly. Dinh _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
