[oe] Questions about openembedded stable branch

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:09 AM, 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.

There is no 2010 release yet.

>
> * OE repository contains very few tags.  Also there is no
>  "year.month" tag as given by the stable branch documentation.
>

once release is panned out that will be tagged.

> * Is there any testing branch (like in Debian) where relatively "stable"
>  packages are moved and they eventually become stable?

.dev/master is the most active branch but there is no testing branch per say.

>  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.

thats right.

>
> * I would like to know how the stable/2010 branch is created.

Do you want to know how or when ?

>
> * My main objective is to find a branch/tag/version
>  newer than stable/2009 and more stable than the dev main branch.
>

you can use .dev of any day.

> Thanks and Regards
>
> Anand
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