[oe] OE recipe tree quality

[Philip Balister]

On 07/31/2010 07:12 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:34 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> 2010/7/30 Koen Kooi<k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>
>>> On 30-07-10 09:21, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 07/29/2010 05:45 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
>>>>>> I would actually advocate removing the 'world' feature from bitbake/OE
>>>>>> to stop people from wasting time on looking at bitbake world and have
>>>>>> them fix actual problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> bitbake world seems to be the source of pointless listserv discussions.
>>> Does
>>>>> it serve any purpose?
>>>>
>>>> Pointless or not really depends on how you look at quality.
>>>>
>>>> If you look at it as you, Koen and other OE long-timers, yes, it looks
>>>> rather pointless to have bitbake world.
>>>> But for those of us who have a different view on what quality is, then
>>>> bitbake world serves a purpose.
>>>
>>> As Thomas points out, as soon as you start blacklisting things (which
>>> actually increases quality), bitbake world doesn't work anymore.
>>
>> Blacklisting does *NOT* increase quality. It just hides the problem and as
>> such it is ostrich behaviour.
>>
>> Instead of masking the problem, better fix things. That is what improves
>> quality!
>>
>> For me a non building recipe is a sign of poor quality.
>>
>> BTW: to avoid the blacklisting issue, I've restarted my test with minimal
>> distro.
>> Results will probably be available after the weekend.
>
> "world" is used by Poky quite successfully. In Poky we expect everything
> to build with a known list of things that don't. Our aim is to have that
> list consisting of zero items and I intend to see that happens :).

But Poky operates under different conditions than the main OE meta-data. 
Since you more focus on what Poky builds, you do not need to support the 
variety of recipes in the OE meta-data.

Philip


>
> I don't think many people have been watching Poky recently but we've
> been quietly having a massive quality control effort on the metadata in
> there. This has included:
>
> a) Removal of legacy staging
> b) Using BBCLASSEXTEND = native where it makes sense
> c) Using nativesdk (no sdk class)
> d) Upgrading everything to modern versions of the package concerned
> e) Only allowing sane pkgconfig files
> f) Enhancing the metadata with licence and other information
>
> Its possible to contemplate this due to Poky's version policy and size
> and its still taking significant effort. OE has always been pulled in
> many directions and this is both a good and a bad thing. The only ways I
> can think of to make a dramatic improvement to OE in this area would be
> disliked by some of its users so I don't know what the solution is.
>
> There are other good things happening in Poky as well as the above too
> btw :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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