[Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] additions to new package submission and updates.

[Joshua Watt]

On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 08:31 -0800, akuster808 wrote:
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>     On 02/26/2018 02:35 AM, Burton, Ross
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> >       Well, maintainers.inc is oe-core specific until we
> >         have a way to tell bitbake "include every
> >         conf/include/maintainers.inc you can find", but if that
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> >         then it's definitely an option for layers.
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>     Nothing  wrong in having maintainers listed somewhere. The more
>     important part IMHO,  is the UPSTREAM_CHECK_*  part.

Does it have to be in maintainers.inc? Could we just include
RECIPE_MAINTAINER in each recipe that actually has a maintainer (TBH, I
don't know *exactly* how it work...)?
It seems like this might be a little easier for something like meta-oe
anyway since it is less(?) centrally maintained?
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> >         For core, we should be requiring it yes.  UPSTREAM_CHECK_*
> >           don't *need* to be present as there are defaults, 
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> >         what we should start checking regularly is that checkpkg
> >           works (and the selftest does spot most of the failures).
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>     The side benefit is we start getting these changes into other
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>     so checkpkg can be utilized by other maintainers.
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>     - armin
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> >         Ross
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> >         On 25 February 2018 at 22:39,
> >           akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com>
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> > > I think
> > >             its time we entertain updating new applications and
> > > package
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> > >             updates submissions process.
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> > >             If a new package is being added or updated,  we
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> > >             expect
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> > >             "UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX" to be present. Maybe even
> > > include an
> > >             entry to the
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> > >             mainainers.inc file?
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> > >             This could apply to all layers.
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> > >             What do you thing?
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> > >             Mahalo,
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> > >             armin
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