[OE-core] [daisy][PATCH 0/6] SRC_URI updates and minor build fixes

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 18:22 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Daisy has now (long since) left upstream maintenance and entered
>> > into
>> > community support. As a member of a community which still actively
>> > develops against this version of OE, I would like to propose the
>> > following updates.
>> Ping.
>>
>> Are these kind of updates OK? Or are there objections to the
>> community
>> trying to support historical releases? There are many millions of
>> devices in the field that I know of which are still being actively
>> developed and maintained on top of OE 1.6.
>
> We've discussed "long term" branches for a while. I suggest that we
> collect together people who are will to maintain such things and let
> them push to a namespace in poky-contrib initially, perhaps in other
> repos eventually where we collect these things together.
>
> Perhaps poky-contrib extended-life/daisy?
>
> If there is common agreement, a group of people could collaborate on
> such a branch too...

Although there are multiple groups still actively developing against
OE 1.6 I fear I may be the only one who has any interest in doing so
in public. Hoping for a "group of people" to show up and collaborate
on a branch in poky-contrib may be asking for too much.