Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> writes: > On 09/05/14 7:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 10 May 2014 00:02, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote: >>> On 08/05/14 10:54 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>> Ah, bsd-user. Do you actually use it, or is it just >>>> in the default compile that you're running? >> >>> I do not use it personally but it is common sense that commits >>> must not be breaking the build. >> >> I generally agree, but the minor ports (roughly, anything >> not x86 Linux) are inevitably going to get broken from time >> to time, because not everybody has access to all those >> systems to test on. bsd-user is particularly bad because >> it is a large chunk of code only built for BSD and it's >> not really maintained right now. (Hence my interest in >> whether it actually has users or if we're just carrying >> around a big lump of dead weight code.) > > This is just excuses and points out poor project process. > There could easily be a staging branch to deal with this.
Having your feature in-tree is a privilege, not a right. You earn it by helping to maintain it. "it's not really maintained right now" means it has not been earning its keep. You're encouraged to remedy that.
