[Openembedded-architecture] Notes from the OEDAM "Naming Table"

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 23:04 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 11:44 -0700, Behan Webster wrote:
> > I can't stress enough that this is not a small issue. It is
> > probably the 
> > most frustrating non-technical thing people complain to me about
> > using YP.
> 
> Without wishing to appear harsh, it sounds to me as though your
> complaints are mostly if not entirely political/administrative issues
> around how Yocto names its products and their components.  It's not
> obvious to me that there is anything much that the broader OE
> community
> can do to help.  If your complaints are with Yocto then I think they
> would be better addressed to one of the Yocto mailing lists.
> 
> If you do think that there is something that OE (outside Yocto) ought 
> to be doing differently then maybe it would be helpful if you could
> provide a separate concise summary of what that is.

Whilst I can see your point, I do think this is a reasonable discussion
to have here and the issues aren't totally unrelated to OE.

The branch naming convention for example is something which makes sense
to have in OE and YP layers as a standard to enable interoperability.
There does appear to be confusion about why we have the release
codenames in the first place and I do think that is something we should
try and clear up regardless of the forum.

There is also feedback, for example about the website which the OE YP
representatives may give back to the Yocto Project advisory board (not
that they don't know my opinion already).

Cheers,

Richard