[OE-core] opkg Status Update

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Paul,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> I'll be releasing opkg v0.2.4 in around 2 weeks and will be following
> that with v0.3.0 in the next month or two. The v0.3.0 release will
> incorporate some useful features, including cache improvements and
> package file extraction improvements. A dependency will be added on
> libarchive which will replace the crufty manual handling of tar and
> gzip formats which used to be in opkg. Due to these changes, I'd
> definitely like to get this tested before the v0.3.0 release and so
> I'll be tagging release candidates. If anyone would like to help with
> testing please let me know! I have a meta-opkg layer
> (https://bitbucket.org/opkg/meta-opkg) which makes it really easy to
> test opkg release candidates and git commits in OpenEmbedded, it even
> has a readme file with instructions.

I'd like to say my public 'Thank you' for this work. opkg is a
critical piece of software in several Free Software projects and
commercial products. Being involved in past with APT and Debian's
development I know it is not an easy task so I do value your work on
it.

Please let me know when you want a specific test on it and I try to
find some time to do it or allocate someone to handle it.

> Also, my circumstances are changing over the next few months. I've
> come to the end of the 'active' part of my PhD research and I'm now
> writing up my thesis part-time. I'm also starting full time employment
> in January. This will make for a pretty busy schedule and I don't know
> until I settle into the new routine how much free time I'll have to
> work on opkg. This would be a great time for someone to step up and
> help move things forward to v0.4.0 and beyond. I'll still be involved
> in opkg development and I'm happy to continue my role as maintainer,
> but I just want to make it clear that my time will be limited and any
> help with development, patch review and bug triage would be much
> appreciated!

Except the 'pretty busy schedule' and 'limited time' parts it is all
good news :-) I wish you all the luck on those new challenges :-D

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