[oe] [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Thu Jan 15 15:24:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:45:23PM -0000, John Willis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > There are a lot of OE based projects around that use an overlay to
> > manage their tweaks (e.g. gumstix, openpandora, arago), which has pros
> > and cons. A while ago I was talking to John Willis (of open2x and
> > openpandora fame) and he liked the idea of mirroring the pandora overlay
> > on git.oe.net to make it more visible and to make it easier for OE
> > developers to work on making pieces of it upstream safe.
> > I think a git mirror of poky would fall in this category as well.
> 
> Get's my vote. As I mentioned on IRC the current OpenPandora model uses 3
> overlays. With the 3rd one being a simple user.collection that local Pandora
> specific recipes go into before working there way upwards.

>From Arago perspective I'm in favor of this proposal as well. Thanks.

-- 
Denys




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