[OE-core] OE-Core release process

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 13:51, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:29 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:54, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > Its been mentioned to me that we perhaps haven't made it really clear
>> > what is happening with OE-Core at the moment. When we started this off,
>> > we agreed to try and get on a roughly six month release cadence so
>> > people had some idea of what to expect from the project and when. We
>> > decided to put that in sync with what Yocto was doing since it was felt
>> > OE-Core would equally benefit from the QA and bug fixing Yocto does as
>> > part of its release process.
>>
>> I fully agree on that and I do think this will gonna be good for both
>> projects; what I dislike is that Yocto people keep using Poky to their
>> development instead of OE-Core and this it is quite boring to share
>> patches between both until you have  cherry-pick them.
>>
>> This should be change in my point of view and people ought to use
>> oe-core for hacking so we all share same base tree.
>
> The shr people keep using their shr scripts and tree and angstrom do the
> same to pick two examples. No, we're not all going to use OE-Core alone,
> that was never the point. So why should we single out poky either? Ok, a
> lot of patches are coming from there but that's good, right? :)
>
> I've yet to refuse a bug report on the grounds of "not OE-Core alone"
> and don't plan to start :)

I disagree on that.

I see shr and angstrom as not the same to Yocto mostly because it
takes, or is suppose to take, oe-core as is and merge it with bitbake,
meta-yocto and be done with it. In this case it seems logical to the
patches go directly to oe-core and Yocto merge from it avoiding a lot
of hassle for you and making contribution easy.

More then once I wanted to pick a patch that was in poky and not yet
merged into oe-core and it wasn't that easy to split it.

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