[Openembedded-architecture] layers.openembedded.org - suggestion to remove obsolete layers

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 04:20:45PM -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/1/19 4:01 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 03:47:43PM -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> >> ...
> >> After 18 months, the layer is clearly no longer being
> >> maintained and will cause more confusion then actually helping people find
> >> something useful.
> >> ...
> > 
> > If it is not too much extra work, it would be useful if you could keep
> > a non-default way to show master including obsolete layers.
> > 
> > There are fringe usecases like "has anyone ever packaged this before".
> 
> There are ways to add comments within the Index itself.  However, there is no
> way to do this for users of the index, such as:
> 
> bitbake-layers layerindex-fetch ....
> 
> I was doing this earlier and pulled in a couple of layers that clear do not
> work, and haven't been updated in a long time..  So it's a real issue that I
> think we need to address.

My usecase was searching for recipes at http://layers.openembedded.org

"fringe usecases" and "If it is not too much extra work" apply,
I cannot judge whether adding "master (including obsolete)" to
the web UI would be trivial or difficult.

> --Mark

cu
Adrian