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. -- Andreas