Aníbal Monsalve Salazar napsal(a):
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:46:14AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:44:47PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>>> Will you be available to answer questions while I walk the learning
>>> curve? :)
>> I will be around yes - as long as you do not expect too quick answers.
>> Good luck(*) if you decide to try it!
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 09:56:39PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 09:51:12PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>>> I assume you can also help with most of the scripts. Right? :)
>> Sure, feel free to contact me if you need.
>
> I would like to maintain kbuild.
Hi,
I would also like to maintain kbuild. Maybe we could work together? What
do you think? I already talked with Sam:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > I would be interested / willing to take over kbuild maintainership
> > either alone or together with Aníbal who also expressed his interest. I
> > do have a linux-related job, actually kbuild-related (maintaining kernel
> > build infrastructure at a certain linux vendor) and my boss would allow
> > me to work on kbuild. I think have good experience with the kbuild
> > scripts, GNU make, perl, etc. Looking at the number of patches sent to
> > linux-kbuild, I think I should be able to manage that. And I only have
> > one kid so far ;-).
>
> It helps enourmously if you anyway have do to some of the time consuming
> things at work.
> I suggest you and An?bal work out how to deal with stuff.
>
> I will ocntinue to be around and can answer any questions - but the
> learning curve is maybe a bit steep in the beginning but then things
> gets easy.
>
> And you are right - it has not been the # of patches to take care
> of. Only that to do stuff properly you should:
> - review carefully
> - test on 5+ architectures
> - and be responsive
>
> So if you can put time aside for this a few times a week and maybe
> even the possibility to concentrate on something for more than 1 hour
> in row you should be fine.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Sam
Also, how is it supposed to work now technically - should we create a
new kbuild-{next,fixes}.git $somewhere, copy over the bits that are
currently in Sam's trees and start collecting & reviewing patches? And
once it's good enough, update the MAINTAINERS file?
Michal
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