[OE-core] Stable branch rules [Was: Re: [PATCH][jethro] glibc-locale: fix QA warning]

[Joshua G Lock]

On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 22:43 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 11:55 -0800, Armin Kuster wrote:
> > From: Armin Kuster <akuster at mvista.com>
> > 
> > WARNING: QA Issue: glibc-locale: /glibc-binary-localedata-sd
> > -in/usr/lib/locale/sd_IN/LC_CTYPE is owned by uid 1000, which is
> > the
> > same as the user running bitbake. This may be due to host
> > contamination [host-user-contaminated]
> > 
> > fix type
> > Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster at mvista.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Enough is enough.
> 
> I cannot tell whether these patches are in master or not or whether
> master needs them or not. Master needs this one, its not in master,
> its
> only being proposed for jethro. Its a mess.
> 
> I am therefore not taking any more stable branch patches at all until
> we amend the stable branch rules to state that pull requests and
> patches clearly state which branches need a fix, or clearly state why
> they don't.

I made an attempt at starting to documenting that requirement:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Stable_branch_mainte
nance&diff=17480&oldid=17028

'Patches' welcome.

Regards,

Joshua