[Buildroot] [PATCHv2/next 2/4] DEVELOPERS: add initial list of Buildroot developers

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 24 14:04:55 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:58:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  >  All of these were really drive-by patches, I don't use any of them regularly.
>  > And in fact, I think that that will be the case for the majority of the packages
>  > that are listed now.  
> 
>  >  I'm afraid that maintaining the DEVELOPERS file (pruning dead e-mail addresses,
>  > removing people that are no longer interested in a particular package) is going
>  > to take more effort (i.e. more commits) than we actually gain by putting the
>  > developers in Cc.  
> 
>  >  So for this initial version, I'd suggest keeping just the people that we know
>  > are active. Basically the people who have responded to this patch :-) And then
>  > in the contributing documentation, invite people to also update the DEVELOPERS
>  > file with their entry.  
> 
> Yes, I also think we should start small and see how it goes.

I disagree, see my reply to Arnout for the reasons why.

Thomas
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