[oe] Request for NEWS item: bitbake in GIT

Holger Hans Peter Freyther holger+oe at freyther.de
Sun Sep 6 15:48:14 UTC 2009


On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:13:23 Marco Cavallini wrote:
> Leon Woestenberg ha scritto, Il 06/09/2009 01:30:
> > For users not reading the mailing list, it is mostly unknown that
> > bitbake is now maintained in GIT.
> >
> > I just modified the "Getting Started -> Bitbake
> > (http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/BitBake)" to reflect this to
> > some extend.
> >
> > However, all other references to BitBake link to the bitbake project
> > page on berlios which mentions the SVN repo.
> >
> > Maybe adding a News item in the wiki helps; I vaguely remember News is
> > moderated (cbrake?)
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Would you also suggest to replace the old
> svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/bitbake/branches/bitbake-1.8/ bitbake
> with a newer git clone command in OE related documentation?


Only the Bitbake developer reference should mention git. Users shall be 
pointed to the tarball of the latest release.

thanks
	z.




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