[LEDE-DEV] Adding new targets/subtargets

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Jan 1, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Weedy <weedy2887 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 31 December 2016 at 20:23, Philip Prindeville
> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Pruning useful subtargets to solve a buildbot resource shortage seems like taking a sledgehammer to kill a fly.
>> 
>> Why not instead just add a profile attribute like:
>> 
>> BUILDBOT_BUILD_ME:=no
>> 
>> Whether it’s still useful to *build* a subtarget is a different question that whether it’s still useful (from a pedagogical perspective) to *keep* a subtarget in the SCM… and these questions shouldn’t be conflated.
>> 
>> -Philip
> 
> 
> If this is going to be the road we travel down (I'm bikeshedding here)
> wouldn't a  BUILDBOT_INTERVAL:=daily/3d/7d/14d make more sense?
> 
> We have more then a few full on targets that for the most part are
> much less popular then say ar71xx.


That’s an even better idea.

-Philip