[oe] OEDEM: Summary of the 'Splitting the tree' session

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/11/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at vanille-media.de>:
> Hi guys,
>
> here's the summary of the 'splitting the tree' session:
>
> Nobody seems to disagree with splitting the metadata tree into more
> managable chunks. The expected goals are:
>
> 1. Making it easier to find things,
> 2. Being able to mask whole groups out for improved parsing
> 3. Identifying core code which needs to always work, hence improving the
> observed quality of OE.
>
> Several criteria for splitting were discussed and there was a consensus
> for splitting by functional complex. A tentative list of directories to
> be used is:
>
> base (10% underlying recipes)
> toolchain
> x11
> framebuffer
> gtk (includes gnome apps)
> qte (includes opie and kde)
> efl
>
> The attendendees were well aware of all the inherent problems with
> taxonomy and its different meaning to anybody in the first place as well
> as that some recipes will always be difficult to categorize since they
> are very flexible to configure. This did not prevent the consensus that
> splitting up will be necessary to improve quality.
>
> It was noted that oestats should be enhanced to be able to report a
> subset of stats to start developing a test matrix of things which should
> always work.
>
> More discussion shall be carried on on this list and after the TSC has
> been elected, it will make a final decision.
>
> Cheers,
>

I think a split is a good idea, but I am not too keen on the name "base"
This suggests that it is kinda basic/core functionality. For a lot of
recipes this is not true. E.g. I am currently working on xmltv, not
really base functionality

As the split proposal is more along the graphics axe, I suggest that
instead of "base" we use something like "cmdline" or so (trying to
avoid the word "terminal" here).
Btw before someone proposes this: I'm also not too keen on a directory
"other" as it will become a junkyard of things.

Frans