[arch-general] Weird reaction to pull request over at Arch Linux ARM

[Christopher Reimer]

On 27.01.2017 22:38, ProgAndy wrote:
> Am 27.01.2017 um 21:41 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general:
>> On 01/27/2017 01:27 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote:
>>> I also noticed a few other pull request trying exactly that, which
>>> were instantly closed by Kevin Mihelich without any reasonable
>>> explanation. That's why I expected some resistance and prepared
>>> myself to counterargument a few of his concerns.
>>>
>>> And I think I did quite good. Good enough to make him ignore me.
>> Oh, he's ignoring you? I must be imagining this quote:
>>
>>> I am speaking specifically to what is or will be officially
>>> supported.  The community is free to do whatever it wants outside of
>>> official support, and many people do this already for a number of
>>> boards.  Merely including the package here would imply official
>>> support to the vast majority of users despite any 72pt blinking red
>>> warnings we could put up state otherwise.  This then leads to said
>>> users expecting us to fix their problems.
>>>
>>> This position is no different than it's been throughout the life of
>>> this project.  Official support means an active, contributing
>>> developer has access to the hardware and can actively develop
>>> packages and address issues for that target.  The hardware that we
>>> choose to spend our time and money on is our own choice, not a
>>> decision forced upon us.
>
> That seems to be a very reasonable position. If the patch is so simple,
> then why don't you maintain it and provide the necessary binary
> packages? You should be able to create a custom user repository for your
> modifications just like we do for Arch Linux for some kernels.
>
I expected something like this. And as a matter of fact I plan to 
provide all necessary parts on my webspace. I even plan to compile and 
provide at least all other sunxi based uboot variants.

http://c-reimer.de/alarm/

More will come in a few days. When I have time to write a script to make 
things easier.

>
> --
> Andreas