[oe] OE 2011.03 release vs. oe-core migration

[Tom Rini]

On 02/07/2011 12:36 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Stefan Schmidt
> <stefan at datenfreihafen.org>  wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 07:55, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On 01/26/2011 03:44 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>>>> On 26/01/2011 10:23, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> During last OEDEM we set out a timeline for quarterly releases. The first one
>>>>> hit on time in december 2010 (Thanks Khem).
>>>>>
>>>>> The next one would be scheduled for 2011-03. As our plans towards oe-core are
>>>>> getting into shape I wonder if and how these both are going to conflict.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will we go ahead and make the 2011-03 release, maybe the last one before moving
>>>>> over to oe-core? Personally I don't think these two block each other. Syncing
>>>>> would be needed, but people will keep working on the OE repo for a bit longer
>>>>> anyway I would think.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we are going to scratch the release what would be the next target for it?
>>>>> Yocto 1.0 is planned for April 2011. Somehow I doubt we will have oe-core ready
>>>>> for this in time, including yocto movs to it and we base the rest of OE on top
>>>>> of it. Am I wrong here and that is the actual plan?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> My opinion is 2010-03 should be the last release on the old source tree.
>>>> Releases after this should be on the new oe-core layer system. I don't
>>>> think we should scrap the release as its going to take some time to kick
>>>> oe-core into shape and finish the poky merge. Then there is work on
>>>> meta-openembedded and meta-distro to do on top of that.
>>>
>>> I think this depends a little on who is going to run the release
>>> again.  We probably won't have a perfect release, stop committing,
>>> switch.  If we're looking for volunteers again to run the next
>>> release, assuming folks will be busy with the migration work too,
>>> I'd throw my hat in the ring (and defer to Khem if he wants to do it
>>> again, along with all of the fun we'll have in oe-core :))
>>
>> I would welcome if we could make the release manager role rotating. So if Tom
>> would be able to pick this up it would be great if Khem can feed him some of his
>> experience with the last release. Be it only theoretical with some hints or
>> practically with helping to review and apply patches towards. Does this sound
>> good to both of you?
>
> by all means. I would do it if no one else is doing.
>
>>
>> I will do some more testing over the next days/weeks and also trying to help
>> with some patches if needed.
>
> We need more people to sign up for testing the release

Specifically run-testing.  I can queue up a pretty good size matrix of 
build tests (and I'm adding Ubuntu 10.04 for a recent host distribution 
to the matrix) but run testing is much more limited.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation