[OE-core] unmaintained layers

[Koen Kooi]

Op 10 jan. 2014, om 15:01 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Thursday 09 January 2014 13:45:23 Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> At the last TSC meeting the topic of unmaintained layers came up. Here
>> is the sorted list of master layers from the layer index [1], would it
>> be possible for those in the know to indicate which layers are, or are
>> suspected of being, unmaintained?
> 
> This is all very interesting with people piping up that their layers are 
> maintained, but I'm not sure it helps solve the overall problem.
> 
> We have some immediate issues with patches to particular layers going 
> unmerged. That's in the process of being resolved.
> 
> However, looking to the future it was suggested at the TSC meeting it would be 
> nice to have some kind of measure or indication for the layer (ideally in the 
> layer index) as to how well-maintained it is. Is there a practical and 
> objective measurement we can have about the layer's maintenance status? I 
> don't have a good idea of what this would actually mean - how many outstanding 
> patches it has? How recently it has been built/tested?

Or how long it takes a patch to get applied on average.