[oe] Moving to layered structure of openembedded metadata

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/11/5 Stefan Schmidt <stefan at datenfreihafen.org>:
> Hello.
>
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 21:00, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>
>> That is already being discussed and decided. See the following previous topics
>> on the mailing list...
>
> To clear this up a bit. There can't be a real decision for now. Not all
> developers have been present at the OEDEM and we haven't discussed  every detail
> their either. :)
>
> Most, if not all, people liked the idea during the OEDEM discussions, but we
> would need more input on problem that this may rise. As it stands I'm happy to
> see Khem coming up to put this on the ml. :)
>
> One I currently see is how we can keep it all working when the layers are
> maintained in different places and what kid of combinational explosion we will
> have with layers in different places.
>

Good points!

To keep things working I feel it is important to minimize the inter
layer dependencies (and make the ones that exist explicit).
My suggestion is that every layer has a maintainer/custodian/owner or
whatever name you want to give it who is responsible to keep the layer
in good shape.
Presumably this means we get a structure where there are two versions
of a layer: the last validated/integrated/accepted one and the working
one.

Frans