[oe] openembedded-core git repository

[Tom Rini]

On 01/25/2011 07:49 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/1/25 Koen Kooi<k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
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>> On 24-01-11 18:48, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Philip Balister<philip at balister.org>  wrote:
>>>> On 01/19/2011 06:48 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, this email is sent as an ordinary member of OE.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to be on a technical level we are agreed that we should split
>>>>> parts of OE out into the so called openembedded-core which will have a
>>>>> stricter commit access and higher QA requirements on changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I therefore think it is time to actually create the repository and let
>>>>> the people who are interested in merging the good stuff from poky with
>>>>> the good stuff from openembedded to create our "core". I don't think
>>>>> there is any need to wait on the political part of the Yocto/OE
>>>>> collaboration as its something we have agreed in principal to do anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would request then that the TSC drive this forward with the server
>>>>> admins and create this repo so work can happen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anything happened on this email? Has the TSC had a meeting to discuss? I
>>>> know it has only been a week, but people are starting to do work based on
>>>> these ideas and need some support from the TSC.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes I think we should start action on it soon. I would suggest to set
>>> up the repository
>>> as first step. As someone raised question about pull model it could be
>>> TSC who decided
>>> to appoint one gatekeeper based upon availability interest and
>>> capability and it could be
>>> rotated.secondly sane Starting point would be importing yocto and then
>>> apply the OE improvements
>>> on top thirdly breakdown oe into oe-meta repo to glue with the oe-core
>>
>> Ignoring the timeline a bit, since ideally we would do this around a
>> yocto milestone to get them to use this straight after their freeze.
>>
>> The technical roadmap/todo:
>>
>> * setup openembedded-core repo on oe.org
>> * setup oe-core ml on oe.org
>> * add oe-core ml to patchwork
>> * import yocto-core in oe-core
>
> Is this yocto core: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/
> Or do you mean this:
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-core
>
>> * start an integration branch
>>   o remove bitbake
> Not sure what you mean with that. Which BB do you propose to use?

Chris Larson has been doing a lot of work (and Richard has been 
confirming, testing, etc, etc) to try and keep poky's bitbake changes in 
sync with master when at all possible (the delta has gotten very very 
small, iirc).

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation