Re: Areas of Emdebian to integrate into Debian

> Guys:
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Hector Oron<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> A far as I understand it and I am not in deep knowledge, there are
>> platform maintainers, i.e. Sasha maintains imx tree, Ben used to
>> maintain samsung tree, Lennert used to maintain lots of platforms,
>> Tony maintains omap tree, and so on.... all of them prepare git
>> branches which Russell King pulls and makes sure are fine for Linus
>> final pull/merge. All those people review others patchsets submitted
>> in time.
>
> Lately, Russell has been focusing on architecture-specific code and
> leaving platform code to the others you mention (among others).  There
> has been a pretty active debate on lkml the last few days over exactly
> this issue, and the burden that all the ARM platforms have been
> placing on Russell and, indirectly, on Linus.
>
> In short, my impression after following the thread is that platform
> submissions are going to be very closely scrutinized, and will be held
> to even higher standards than those applied to date.  As a result, any
> policy that depends on new platform code being present in mainline
> will not be implementable any time soon and not without a lot of
> focused effort.
>
Which makes it all the less likely that embedded developers will submit to 
mainline although we are constantly berrated (justifiably in most cases) 
for not doing so. Is this likely to evolve into "Use Device Tree or keep it 
in-house"?

>
> b.g.