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

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:42:06 -0700
akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Hmmm...just looked at master and there is a pointer to the wiki (which
I would considered the canonical location and better than duplicating
in multiple repos).

> nor does in include the Maintainer.

That's in 'meta/conf/bitbake.conf' or per-recipe (since there is no
single maintainer for the whole layer IIRC).

Regards,

Daniel

> 
> - 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
> >  
>