Re: [U-Boot] [U-Boot-Board-Maintainers] [ANN] U-Boot v2019.07-rc4 released

Hi Simon,

Am 22.06.19 um 16:55 schrieb Simon Glass:

I'd like to better understand the benefits of the 3-month timeline.

It takes time to learn about a release, package and build it, test it on various hardware, investigate and report errors, wait for feedback and fixes, rinse and repeat with the next -rc. Many people don't do this as their main job.

If we shorten the release cycle, newer boards will get out faster (which is good) but the overall quality of boards not actively worked on (because they were working good enough before) will decay, which is bad. The only way to counteract that would be to automatically test on real hardware rather than just building, and doing that for all these masses of boards seems unrealistic.

Regards, Andreas