[OE-core] Yocto Project 1.2 M4 schedule

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Thu Apr 12 19:57:02 UTC 2012


Op 12 apr. 2012, om 21:46 heeft Philip Balister het volgende geschreven:

> On 04/12/2012 11:40 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 14:32 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:22, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>> You just volunteered to handle all the "Does it work with yocto 1.2?" questions :)
>>>> 
>>>> Simply put: people are stupid, they need explicit PHB compliant names in tags, even if it isn't 100% politically correct to say "yocto" when we actually mean "oe-core".
>>>> 
>>>> Unless the yocto 1.2 release note state that it's based on oe-core "foo" and all layers compatible with "foo" use "foo" in tags/branches.
>>> 
>>> I think layers ought to have tags for both ...
>>> 
>>> <layer>-oe-core-<tag>
>>> <layer>-yocto-<tag>
>> 
>> This would be rather sad if it were necessary. The whole point is we're
>> trying to build things which are compatible with each other. If that
>> turns out not to be the case I want to fix it, not encourage it.
> 
> We need a coherent tag name to use across layers. The Yocto Project is
> the umbrella project, so using the yocto-project in the tag name is a
> good way to show this coordination among projects to people not familiar
> with how things are working. (As Koen notes, this makes communication
> with people whose primary exposure to the Yocto Project is watching
> youtube videos)
> 
> I do not want to see table containing Yocto Project release information
> and they relate to a set of seemingly random tags in other layers.
> 
> Philip
> 
> PS: For various reasons, the tag needs to be yocto-project.... not yocto....

"yoctoproject", without the hyphen to be consistent with the domainname :)



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