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There were still some references to the old location of the scripts in the manual. Replace them by utils/. While we're at it, remove the redundant ./ at the beginning of some of the example commands. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
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// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
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[[DEVELOPERS]]
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== DEVELOPERS file and get-developers
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The main Buildroot directory contains a file named +DEVELOPERS+ that
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lists the developers involved with various areas of Buildroot. Thanks
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to this file, the +get-developer+ tool allows to:
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- Calculate the list of developers to whom patches should be sent, by
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parsing the patches and matching the modified files with the
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relevant developers. See xref:submitting-patches[] for details.
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- Find which developers are taking care of a given architecture or
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package, so that they can be notified when a build failure occurs on
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this architecture or package. This is done in interaction with
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Buildroot's autobuild infrastructure.
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We ask developers adding new packages, new boards, or generally new
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functionality in Buildroot, to register themselves in the +DEVELOPERS+
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file. As an example, we expect a developer contributing a new package
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to include in his patch the appropriate modification to the
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+DEVELOPERS+ file.
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The +DEVELOPERS+ file format is documented in detail inside the file
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itself.
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The +get-developer+ tool, located in +utils/+ allows to use
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the +DEVELOPERS+ file for various tasks:
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- When passing one or several patches as command line argument,
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+get-developer+ will return the appropriate +git send-email+
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command.
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- When using the +-a <arch>+ command line option, +get-developer+ will
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return the list of developers in charge of the given architecture.
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- When using the +-p <package>+ command line option, +get-developer+
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will return the list of developers in charge of the given package.
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- When using the +-c+ command line option, +get-developer+ will look
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at all files under version control in the Buildroot repository, and
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list the ones that are not handled by any developer. The purpose of
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this option is to help completing the +DEVELOPERS+ file.
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