[oe] Plans for OE classic future

[Ulf Samuelsson]

On 2011-11-26 16:20, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Ulf Samuelsson
> <ulf_samuelsson at telia.com>  wrote:
>> On 2011-11-25 23:04, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
>>> <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> After all, isn't one of the purposes of OE to promote information
>>>> sharing,
>>>> cooperation and the use of openembedded technology (and not make things
>>>> harder).
>>> One of the points of making master read-only would be to ensure that
>>> changes aren't lost.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the transition needs to be:
>>> - master is as it is today
>>> - master becomes oe-core backport || master-only bugfixes only
>>> - master becomes read only.
>>>
>>> And we go from the first step to the second step sometime sooner
>>> rather than later.  The top of my head date would be before the
>>> paid-developers go on end of year breaks to try and make sure all the
>>> hobbyist folks start their hacking with oe-core+etc rather than master
>>> and risk getting caught later.  I'm open to arguments on why that's
>>> exactly backwards...
>>>
>> Won't it be a problem for existing projects, if you cannot add fixes to cope
>> with new host OS versions.
>>
>> At the moment, openembedded-classic does not build properly with Ubuntu
>> 11.10 .
> Won't what be a problem?  Either oe-core+meta-oe+etc fails on 11.10
> (so, fix it there first then backport changes) or it's fine and you
> can either find the relevant changes there and move them or it's a
> oe.dev-only bug and just needs to be fixed, under my proposal (until
> we reach the point where everyone is OK calling it r/o).

Making it R/O.
/Ulf


> And part of this is to say that yes, existing projects external to
> oe.dev need to move to oe-core(+meta-oe+whatever else) (where layers
> should be making their life easier or again, there's problems we're
> unaware of and need to be made aware of) or explain why they can't
> ever move (and are forking the project?).
>


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Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson