[OE-core] Hints on submitting to OE-Core

[akuster808]

On 03/17/2017 06:21 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2017-03-18 00:55, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got a pre-alpha 'distro' and some layers I think that could get to
>> an interesting state.  The intent is to work them up to where they are
>> suitable to be submitted as patches to oe-core rather than the
>> current .bbappend and related files.
>>
>> There's rather a lot of reading (which is good in the sense that I like
>> actually have documentation, although that's definitely an area I need
>> to improve on for the layers I've got in the works), and I haven't
>> nearly got through it all yet, but I was hoping for pointers on the
>> most important bits to read for prepping patches submission.
>
> Have you read this?
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded

To be honest, OE-core does not even comply to the basic standard of a 
README. It missing patch submission info like many other layers do nor 
does in include the Maintainer.

- armin
>
>>
>> Also, in the layers list I'll be asking about some build issues that I
>> don't see with a manual bitbake, that look like missing preqs on a build
>> server, unless the layer should be requesting installation of host files
>> somewhere.
>
> Some tools required by ${HOSTTOOLS} are missing:
>   cpio chrpath gawk diffstat makeinfo
>