[OE-core] [RFC] [PATCH] Provide users with project support status

Alexander Kanavin alex.kanavin at gmail.com
Sat Nov 2 15:54:37 UTC 2019


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 16:30, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:

> The easiest way to get long-term security support in such a situation
> is often to take the required parts from the BSP layer, and use them
> to build the product on top of Ubuntu LTS (or Debian).
>

There is an alternative: engineer the product in such a way that it can be
updated from one Yocto release to a newer Yocto release.
This is what I will be pushing for where I work (Daimler).


> The core question should really be how to increase the time of upstream
> support that is usually left when a Yocto-based distibution reaches the
> user, not just how to tell users that they are screwed.
>

I'd say information about YP support windows should be more widely known,
both because it is useful in itself, and because maybe the users will talk
with their company management and with the project, and figure out ways to
improve the situation.

Alex
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