[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Changing stable branch commit policy

[Koen Kooi]

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Leon Woestenberg schreef:
| Hello all,
|
|> Do you want to write a short blurb on this we can stick on the oe and
angstrom websites? regards, Koen
|
| Sure, a first shot at that (and sorry for cross-posting, but this
| really is OE related :-)
|
| ---
| The OpenEmbedded project has started to maintain a stable branch, next
| to its development branch, on March 28th 2007. Besides
| "org.openembedded.dev" there now is the "org.openembedded.stable"
| branch.
|
| The plumbing work on the development branch (long-term improvements
| such as packaged staging, creating stand-alone SDK toolchains and a
| new package manager) colides with the goal of offering a stable base
| for OpenEmbedded-derived distributions. Some projects, most notably
| the Angstrom distribution, already maintained a stable branch for this
| reason.
|
| The effort of maintaining a stable branch is now centralized back into
| the OpenEmbedded project. The main goal of the stable branch is to
| provide a branch that progresses in time with a minimum of disruptive
| changes, especially to the framework, which include classes,
| configuration namespace, package management, and tooling such as the
| bitbake tool. Changes to the stable branch are selected and reviewed
| according to an agreed upon policy before being committed to the
| stable branch. This will require extra effort from the OpenEmbedded
| developer community.
|
| The stable branch is not intended to keep up with the pace of
| development on the development branch. Planned is to create new stable
| branches every year; the next stable branch is scheduled to branch of
| the development tree during 2008.12. Old stable branches will go in
| unmaintained mode 3 months after a new stable branch is created; the
| current stable will retire 2009.2.
|
| OpenEmbedded projects and distributions now have the choice of at
| least a .dev and .stable branch and the OpenEmbedded developers can
| keep on plumbing.
| ---

The mailinglist:

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-stablebranch

And viewmtn:

http://amethyst.openembedded.net/oe/viewmtn/viewmtn.py/branch/changes/org.openembedded.stable

The commit policy (currently under RFC at the above mailinstlist):

http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom/Backport_from_dev_to_stable

regards,

Koen



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