Suggestions for BSPs to Obsolete

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Wed Oct 21 06:18:25 UTC 2015



On 21/10/15 01:24, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 21/10/2015 12:56 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On 10/20/2015 6:15 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> Maybe we should build a list of BSP directories and find maintainers for
>>> each directory in some time frame. Then remove all BSPs without a
>>> maintainer.
>> That is one approach. Another is defining tiers for the BSP
>> and being more aggressive about dropping them.
>>
>> I think Chris has discussed his ideas on tiers before.
>>   
> I think both will be needed. We are moving to Phabricator and having
> areas developers can approve will be important. I am concerned if we do
> not things will sit and not be pushed through.
>
> I also think we will need tiers so we can manage the results from
> buildbot. There are active and current BSPs we have no way of testing
> because we do not have the hardware. If a user has a board and sets up a
> slave to allow testing for that BSP it will reach a higher tier and we
> have better testing.

Maybe we need something similar to the Linux maintainers list:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS

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