[oe] Plans for OE classic future

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ulf Samuelsson
<ulf_samuelsson at telia.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry, I'm not clear on why this is a problem.  Are you suggesting
that oe.dev be maintained and kept building until...?  And again, I'm
happy to keep the maintenance branch building so long as people are
willing to feed me pull requests to do so.

But also, please see what I said just now in another part of the
thread about the direction I see things going, today.

-- 
Tom