[oe] Plans for OE classic future

[Philip Balister]

On 11/23/2011 04:18 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/11/23 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Mats Kärrman <Mats.Karrman at tritech.se>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are there any plans for new releases and/or maintenance branches of OE
>> classic?
>>>
>>
>> 2011.03-maintenance is the last release of OE classic. As long as the
>> branch is maintained
>>
>> _
>>
>> Related: I noticed TSC plans to discuss on whether or not to make oe
> classic read only.
> 
> I'd like to suggest leaving it open for those of us that are still using
> it.
> For instance I have still products that are based on OE classic. If there
> is a problem that is of a generic nature, I'm more than happy to submit
> patches so others in the same situation can benefit from it.
> (actually I have one pending with a new version of netsnmp; the current
> recipe does not build with uclibc, whereas the latest version of netsnmp
> does; found/fixed this today, but haven't had time to make a commit)
> 
> And if there is no interest any more it'll eventually die. But as of now I
> do see people working on/with it (see the commit log).

At some point it needs to die/go read only.

But, until oe-core + openembedded can replace it, we need to be able to
do minor updates to support already deployed systems.

Philip