[Openembedded-architecture] patchwork (etc) support for BSP layers (OEDAM 2017)

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:59:53PM -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Mon 2017-03-06 @ 09:03:32 AM, akuster808 wrote:
> > On 03/05/2017 09:43 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > One of the items discussed over lunch at the recent OEDAM 2017, but that I
> > > can't find in the notes, was about including support for more layers in
> > > patchwork.
> > I believe this was in the context of the sub layers in meta-openembedded.
> > OE ( community)  could be driving that work, changes etc.
> 
> Funny... I remember it the other way around.
> 
> _I_ brought up this topic in the context of meta-rockchip and it was almost
> immediately subverted by everyone wanting to talk about Tim Orling's
> meta-openembedded split up work ...and here we are again :-(
> 
> So, ignoring Tim's work for the time-being, would it be possible for
> "non-core" layers (maybe the layers found in the layer index?) to be added to
> patchwork (and possibly benefit from other available Yocto tooling)?
> 
> When I brought this up RP immediately questioned whether BSP layers should be
> hosted on git.yoctoproject.org. Then there was talk about financial
> contributions. Then someone suggested the Raspberry Pi foundation might want
> to fund some of this infrastructure for meta-raspberrypi. Then we drifted into
> the meta-openembedded split-up (and everyone forgot the previous 10 minutes).

The discussion went on and we eventually concluded that *commercial* BSP 
layers can only be hosted on git.yoctoproject.org and benefit from tools like 
patchwork only if the company behind it is a paying member of the Yocto 
Project. If the BSP is rather *community* supported, then it's probably OK 
to provide free resources like git hosting and patchwork. That was my 
understanding - Richard can correct it, if needed.

-- 
Denys