[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project stable release changes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:58:54AM -0800, akuster808 wrote:
> On 2/3/20 1:38 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 11:48:49PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 01:13 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> ...
> >>> 2. Branch change when changing to community maintainance would be bad
> >>>
> >>> This would silently break any automated setup that follows a stable
> >>> branch for getting security updates.
> >> This I disagree with, quite strongly.
> >>
> >> When something moves to community support, it means the testing and
> >> quality could change.
> > Regarding testing, the only documented difference between LTS branches
> > and community branches is "Automated testing is on a best effort basis".
> 
> That is the same difference of Stable branches and Community supported.
> What is not noted is the Build configurations along with Automated
> Testing it the unknown for Community support.
> > Regarding other quality aspects, I do not see why the community branch
> > patch review and merging process has to be different from the normal
> > stable process.
> Stable has to pass builds on the AB and the tests included. Dot releases
> include a formal QA run.
> 
> Community is unknown.

For community support branches the maintainer is required to publish a 
test plan.

Easiest for everyone would be if stable/LTS/community branches all use 
the same processes for patches.

> - Armin

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Adrian