[Buildroot] Changes in the Buildroot autobuilders

Mischa Jonker Mischa.Jonker at synopsys.com
Mon Jun 17 20:09:51 UTC 2013


Kennedy wrote:
>> So, there are three possibilities:
>> 
>>   - per-package _MAINTAINER variable in each .mk
>>   - global MAINTAINERS a bit like the Linux kernel
>>   - subscription from the autobuilder website
> I wonder if we could default to 2 if 1 is not set.  Are all packages
> really owned by someone?  I would guess that there are many that just
> exist and only get updated when someone needs to bump the version or
> if there is a corner case.

How would we handle architecture-specific failures for a package if we don't have a global MAINTAINERS file? Add another _MAINTAINER variable in the config.in.<arch> file?

Mischa




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