[oe] meta-java Workflow

[Huang, Jie (Jackie)]

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> From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-devel-
> bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 2:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [oe] meta-java Workflow
> 
> Hello Jens,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > to avoid such a problem as it occurred with ec7b984f, 04d5d0bf and dfb21b44, I strongly suggest that
> meta-java follows the merge-workflow from other meta-layers:
> >
> > cherry-pick new stuff into master-next, when settled - merge to master
> > Branch releases as other layers do and same, push back-ported patches into ${rel_branch}-next and
> merge the behaving ones into ${rel_branch}.

I agree to improve this so it should be able to avoid some regression issues.

> >
> > The current way - pushing to master and live only there result in the happened revert - and to
> continue my work I would have to revert the reverts without any nice word in the commit message as

I left the detail message in the following commit, if that didn't have nice word, sorry about that, but I just
tried to explain the regression issue I found and how I fix it.

> I did in reverting 24b98ac3 with a88718b6.
> 
> I understand your frustation but I think you are exagerating on this.
> 

I have the same feeling, if there is no regression issue, I believe no one like to revert anything.

> The fix you provide (and was reverted by causing regression at that
> moment) is a great improvement and those should be brought back. To
> bring it back, as I explained on the Hangout, you can revert those and
> apply the fix for the sstate. Doing this, we can integrate those
> changes back and everyone is happy.

I agree, I will be happy if there is a better fix.

Thanks,
Jackie

> 
> To make all this setup you are asking for, I need to reserve resources
> in our autobuilder to properly excercize it and provide useful
> feedback otherwise it is useless. To be honest, I am not being an
> active user of this and been acting as maintainer just due the lack of
> someone more active so I am willing to give the maintenance for
> someone more commited to Java use than me, if desired.
> 
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