[OE-core] volunteers for meta-qt4 repo maintenance?

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 18 22:08:08 UTC 2015


On Monday 16 November 2015 12:26:05 Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 11/16/2015 12:07 PM, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> >> Making a separate repository with this layer is even more disruptive,
> >> and complicates administration and maintenance. I'm not going to handle
> >> those. So I'll make a meta-qt4 layer under meta-oe, and it's fine if
> >> there is no official maintainer or ongoing build testing for it at least
> >> until someone volunteers to pick it up.
> > 
> > Basically everyone agreed on moving qt4 to its own repo. And your
> > conclusion is to ignore that and move qt4 to meta-openembedded, already
> > expecting bitrot?
> 
> Are you willing to be the maintainer of that separate repo? So far no
> one has stepped up for this job. In this situation, it's better to keep
> the recipes under meta-openembedded tree and mark them as unmaintained.
>
> I'll ask this explicitly - any volunteers for a separate meta-qt4
> repository and layer maintenance?

Put my name against it if you need a name - no promises on how active I'll be 
though. I will definitely volunteer to do the initial move-out and repo 
creation so you wouldn't need to do anything.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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