Hi flashrom folks,
I've been thinking more and more about returning to a stable flashrom branch lately; starting over from v1.2 seems reasonable. The question is, how to proceed on such a branch?
There are, of course, many cherries on the current master branch. But in what order should they be picked? And should they be picked first? What about even older patches? There are still many patches on patch- work [1] and also on Gerrit. Some of them probably also cherries.
When I was still more of an official maintainer for flashrom, I tried to keep track of these things. And lately, a look at the wiki history told me that maintainers before me cared too [2]. But I guess nothing happened in that direction in the past 3 years.
Depending on the progress with the 1.3 release, I'd suggest to either try to merge things in historical order, or start with the easy cher- ries on the current master branch (new chips and programmers that are ready; for a small release and then focus on a short release cycle).
WDYT?
Cheers, Nico
[1] https://patchwork.coreboot.org/project/flashrom/list/ [2] https://www.flashrom.org/index.php?title=Development_Guidelines&oldid=22...