[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-03 Thread Peter Stuge
Martin Roth wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > Is there a time limit that you think is appropriate to request > maintenance for? Ideally no mainboard directory has any copy-pasted code, and every contributor who adds a board has already been or follows up by eliminating some hack outside their immediate

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-02 Thread Julius Werner
> True, however we can still set expectation even if there is no way to enforce > it. This would be more of a social norm than a hard requirement, but it does > help to know that if you are e.g. pushing an entire board into coreboot, that > to keep it in tree you are expected to do amount of

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-02 Thread Timothy Pearson
- Original Message - > From: "Julius Werner" > To: "Timothy Pearson" > Cc: "Martin Roth" , "Peter Stuge" , > "coreboot" > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 5:23:58 PM > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Re: What maintenance

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-02 Thread Julius Werner
codebase. :) > > - Original Message - > > From: "Martin Roth" > > To: "Peter Stuge" > > Cc: "coreboot" > > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:16:41 PM > > Subject: [coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot > &g

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-02 Thread Timothy Pearson
tuge" > Cc: "coreboot" > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:16:41 PM > Subject: [coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers > & companies > Thanks Peter, > Is there a time limit that you think is appropriate to request > maintenance

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-02 Thread Martin Roth
Thanks Peter, Is there a time limit that you think is appropriate to request maintenance for? Obviously it's not reasonable to request that they maintain it forever, but is 2 years after the initial push reasonable? 3 years? What level of maintenance would be expected? Would we just

[coreboot] Re: What maintenance is expected from coreboot developers & companies

2019-05-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Martin Roth wrote: > I'd like to discuss the issue of what's expected from developers after > code is added to the coreboot tree. Thanks for bringing this up. > It seems like there's a feeling > that if a company pushes code to coreboot, or hires someone to push > code to coreboot that there's