[oe] Questions about openembedded stable branch

[Anand Sivaram]

I asked these questions here because I could not find *any* satisfactory
answer from google.   But if any of these are already discussed before, I
would really appreciate if some one could point out those links to me.


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 13:39, Anand Sivaram <aspnair at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I was going through the stable documentation given at
> http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Stable
> I had a couple of questions.
>
> * Seems like there should have been a release "stable/2010" some time
> around
>   March, but I could not find any mention about that release.
>
> * OE repository contains very few tags.  Also there is no
>   "year.month" tag as given by the stable branch documentation.
>
> * Is there any testing branch (like in Debian) where relatively "stable"
>   packages are moved and they eventually become stable?
>   Or is it like mainline linux kernel where features are frozen, then
>   do RC releases and finally the stable release?  It looks like
>   origin/org.openembedded.dev is a rolling/floating place where
>   packages/features are constantly getting included.
>
> * I would like to know how the stable/2010 branch is created.
>
> * My main objective is to find a branch/tag/version
>   newer than stable/2009 and more stable than the dev main branch.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Anand
>
>
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