On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 01:42:07PM +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 17:32 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
Features for the stable kernel are agreed by the TSC. Once a feature has been agreed by the TSC there should be an owner assigned to deliver a feature branch
Who does the assigning, and from what pool does the assignee come?
Presumably the TSC ultimately in the same way anyone gets assigned to work on anything in Linaro, it'd probably depend on what the feature is and who's avaiable at a given time.
Updating code in the LSK
Who decides when and how often the LSK code should be updated, and is the person doing the updating chosen in the same way as the original feature submission?
I think we need to figure this out on an ongoing and probably feature by feature basis, and of course some of this is going to be triggered by bug reports rather than just a "hey let's update this" thing. The tradeoffs here are also going to be very different for something which is being included as a preview and is still under active development as opposed to something that is pretty much done and dusted.
For now we've never had anyone wanting to update anything at all except for general tracking of kernel.org stable release; I think for now we should just leave it as a "do something sensible" - ultimately it's the TSC again.
I'm just trying to work out if my future at Linaro is going to consiste of full time backporting of TC2 and big.LITTLE features...
Have to talk to your manager about that I guess...
As far as TC2 goes there's no real interest in it for LSK except in that we need platform enablement in order to test the features.