[oe] Yocto Project and OE - Where now?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/19 Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk>:
> On 19/01/2011 08:45, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>>> * The maintainer can have as many versions as he wants to.
>> my preference: not in the main layer.
>>
>
> I suspect all that is going to happen with this attitude is the recipes
> in the main layer will end up not maintained as the recipe maintainer
> will just maintain them in his own layer. Leading to fracturing of OE
> which is what we are trying to prevent. Sometimes you are just going to
> have to accept that the recipe maintainer knows best and knows what he
> is doing.

Agree.
Unfortunately some of the root causes of the problems we are having in
the current tree are that for lots of recipes the maintainer is not
known or gone or does not do a very good job.
In case of a good recipe maintainer (like e.g. khem with gcc) this is
not a problem. Unfortunately not all our recipes are as
well-maintained as gcc.

Frans