[oe] daisy branch for meta-openembedded, meta-qt5 / maintainer wanted

[Philip Balister]

On 05/05/2014 09:45 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:32:04AM -0700, Adam Lee wrote:
>> Hi JaMa, what does it take to be a maintainer?
>>
>> Do I need to build check all the packages everyday?
> 
> Definitely no everyday, there are more patches coming in just after the
> release, but later it's something like 1-5 patches in month.
> 
> So it doesn't need much time, but it's always good when it's done by
> someone else then master maintainer (to setup separate builds etc).
> 
> Possibly more time is spent on watching the ML, because many people
> don't read README file and instead of following the proper procedure for
> backports to relase branches they just say somewhere in ML "BTW: also
> merge this to dora".
> 
> You can also have some co-maintainer if you find way to split the work
> without duplicating it.

Adam,

I'd be glad to help scan the list for backport requests.

Philip

> 
> I'm fine with scheme where maintainer sends me consolidated pull-request
> and I'll merge it for him to actual branch (so that he doesn't even need
> R/W to main repo).
> 
> BTW: If you don't mind, then I'll forward this to oe-devel as well for
> other possible volunteers.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>> Please let me know!
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> few people asked me when there will be daisy branch in meta-openembedded
>>> repository.
>>>
>>> My current plan is at the end of next week.
>>>
>>> There are some pending fixes I need to finish testing (please review,
>>> test and reply on them).
>>>
>>> I was hoping for few more fixes for
>>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2014-March/094893.html
>>>
>>> and especially for incorrect dependencies:
>>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2014-April/095268.html
>>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2014-April/095464.html
>>>
>>> There is only one change on ML which really cannot go to daisy branch
>>> (http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/71107/), the B!=S fixes are on
>>> edge, but they shouldn't harm to be in daisy.
>>>
>>> I hope to get few more fixes from OEDAM and then I'll run final build
>>> test on jenkins (3days, possibly needed twice).
>>>
>>> If you want to maintain daisy release in meta-oe, reply in this thread
>>> and send patch to update README files.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --
>>> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
>>>
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> 
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