[flashrom] Future flashrom development (Stefan's PoV I)

[Nico Huber]

On 17.10.2017 01:14, David Hendricks wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:
>> While there was a bunch of patches that have been piled up back then it
>> was less of a problem then the increasing divergence between the
>> chromiumos fork and upstream. Thus we have discussed ways to converge
>> that (by pulling changes mainly from upstream into chromium but also
>> vice versa) and also increase the pace of merging stuff into upstream
>> later. This was still with no intention to switch to git because of
>> Carl-Daniel's concerns.
>>
> 
> I'm surprised that you think that chromiumos's divergence is a *worse*
> problem than the huge backlog of upstream patches. The chromiumos fork is
> self-contained, has its own review system, its own testing, and is targeted
> at a narrow set of devices. I don't understand how it could have been a
> problem for upstream and would be interested if you can elaborate on this
> point.

I think there are at least two views on this:

What might happen in such a case: People loose interest in upstream and
less patches get send there. (This might even have a positive effect on
the patch queue.)

What I think happened (and maybe Stefan had something like this in
mind): Progress on upstream stalled on more invasive topics because
people tried to find a solution fitting both branches, first. FWIW,
this was the case for better layout support in upstream. Maybe there
were more topics stalled, I don't know the cros fork well enough.

Nico