[oe] [PATCH 2/2] recipes: Update recipes to get 'bitbake world' parse and calculate runqueue successfully.

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Koen brought up this in the thread on the review process. As it
> (mostly) is about this thread I felt it was more appropriate here.
>
>
>>> = me
>> = Koen
>
>>> I see two things happening.
>>> - patches are submitted for review but do not gain any feedback in a
>>> reasonable time. I have several patches in the queue that did not get
>>> any feedback.
>>> - people are abusing their powers by rejecting changes without
>>> motivation. See e.g [1] and [2]. I feel if you reject a patch you have
>>> an obligation to explain why you rejected it.
>>
>> If you want to delete a recipe I maintain, the burden is on you or are
>> you saying that maintainers aren't in charge of their recipes anymore?
>
>
>>>[1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-August/023374.html
>>>[2] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-August/023270.html
>
> The 10 recipes Koen nack-ed:
>>  recipes/angstrom/angstrom-bootmanager.bb           |    2 +-
>>  recipes/esc/esc-node-demo_git.bb                   |    4 +-
>>  recipes/meta/meta-toolchain-arago-dvsdk.bb         |    1 +
>>  recipes/sugar/sugar-fructose.bb                    |    2 +-
>>  recipes/tasks/task-arago-toolchain-target.bb       |    3 +-
>>  recipes/tasks/task-demo-x11.bb                     |   17 ++---
>>  recipes/tasks/task-gmae.bb                         |    7 ++
>>  recipes/tasks/task-gpe.bb                          |    6 +-
>>  recipes/udev/udev-compat141_141.bb                 |    6 ++-
>>  recipes/vlc/vlc-davinci_0.8.6h.bb                  |    2 +-
>
> Person:     Koen Kooi
> Mail:       koen at openembedded.org
> Website:    http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms
> Machines:   h2200, ipaq-pxa270, efika, ep93xx, netbook-pro
> Distros:    �~Engstr��m
> Interests:  OpenSync, GNOME, GPE, Matchbox
> Recipes:    abiword, bootchart, dia, farsight, freeciv, fuse, galago,
> geda, gimp,
> Recipes:    gnumeric, gobby, obby, imposter, inkscape
> Recipes:    *moko*, telepathy, tilibs, xchat, xournal.
>
> I don't know what others think about it, but I see only a few matches.

it really does not matter. This MAINTAINERS file is not defining the boundary
of what people can provide feedback on but its a document which says whom to
approach if a recipe is not being taken care on some issues. There are
many aspects
to patches and all feedback should be welcome.

>
> That of course does not mean that Koen is not entitiled to an opinion.
> Of course not, this is a rerview request and everyone may react to it.
> However, I, and I think most of us would appreciate it if this is done
> in a professional, polite and friendly manner.

> (btw wrt the other two post about the 3 conf/distro/include files I
> proposed to delete: two are gpe, and one is maemo. you may consider
> yourself to be the maintainer of the gpe recipes. I've clearly
> indicated why I wanted to remove them and you did not address any of
> my concerns and observations; also as I wrote before maintainership
> also comes with obligations. These files are clearly broken so it
> seems the maintainer has some work there.)
>
> Frans
>
> PS: I think this is also an excellent case why it is a good idea to
> identify the maintainer within the recipe/
>
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