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?
Would you mind elaborating on why going back to 1.2 seems reasonable? That's not obvious, at least to me.
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?
They have already been picked. So by the nature of reality the answer here seems to be yes.
What about even older patches? There are still many patches on patch-
work [1] and also on Gerrit. Some of them probably also cherries.
I would assume stuff on patchwork has by now been bitrotting for a few years and should not be committed without being forward ported, tested and uploaded to Gerrit.
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.
Are you suggesting that you didn't keep track in the past three years? What sort of track keeping are you referring to here?
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).
What do you mean by "depending on the progress"? What are your key indicators of progress here that would influence one or the other direction?
It seems to me that a realistic path forward is to have a combination of the two.