[OE-core] master branch and stabilisation

[akuster808]

On 04/05/2018 10:05 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> We're trying to focus on getting a good 2.5 release. We've had around
> 80 upgrades to recipes on the list after the freeze and basically the
> maintainers like Ross and myself are damned if we do and damned if we
> don't.
>
> I usually try and ignore them at this point in a release. This then
> upsets people as they don't get feedback and makes my life horrible
> when I eventually try and round them up.
>
> Instead I've tried pulling them into master-next. So far so good but I
> thought I'd better see how much of a mess the branch is in. Conclusion
> is at least 3 different failures, some of which I can't even easily
> figure out the patch causing it.
>
> So I now get to spend my time trying to figure out which patch broke
> what so I can report back on it and make the branch build again by
> dropping the broken patches.
I will take a look as I have a large set in there.

>
> This means I'm trying to do full on day to day development as usual as
> well as trying to sort release issues like the imminent fedora28 issue
> I should be paying attention to instead.
>
> So, a question, what do people want me to do?
I would rather see you focus on the release.

- Armin
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>