[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto Project stable release changes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:10:28AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion about stable releases and how the
> project might handle them going forward. The TSC has put together some
> process/policy information on the project wiki:
> 
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/LTS
>...

One more comment on this:

Stable/LTS common properties:
- Strict “backport only”, master first policy

Community status properties:
- Master first policy recommended


Could this be changed to the (recursive) policy
  When applicable, a change should already be in the
  next-higher maintained branch.

This would include that changes backported to Yocto 3.1 LTS
should already be in Yocto 3.2 community maintained.

In practice it should rarely be a problem to apply a backport
from master to an older release also to all releases in between,
and all maintained branches are supposed to have a maintainer.


> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> (on behalf of the YP TSC)

cu
Adrian