[oe] [OE-core] Unmaintained layers

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 26 May 2016 22:42:35 Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Paul Eggleton
> 
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 May 2016 22:18:34 Andreas Müller wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Paul Eggleton
> >> 
> >> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 26 May 2016 13:46:21 Cliff Brake wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> >> > meta-java repo was moved to:
> >> >> > git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-java
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Is it possible to update the list with that info?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Done, thanks!
> >> >> 
> >> >> https://github.com/cbrake/openembedded-admin/commit/51604da79ed5a02341
> >> >> 562
> >> >> a9b f254b3dd9dc71704
> >> > 
> >> > At some point it would be great if this script could be driven from the
> >> > OE
> >> > layer index rather than being a separate entity - then updates would
> >> > largely be self-service for the maintainers, or at least they would
> >> > only
> >> > need to be done in one place.
> >> 
> >> Maybe a bit off-topic but layer index should have some mechanism of
> >> removing rotten layers.
> > 
> > We've discussed this on-and-off at OE developer meetings for a while now.
> > FWIW I can remove them manually - actually I just got around to deleting
> > meta- picosam9 which has been unmaintained for years.
> > 
> > Part of the problem though is determining what "rotten" actually means.
> > Additionally, there's an element of leaving things around in case someone
> > comes to fork/revive them again. We do show a "last updated" date but it
> > would be good to figure out some other way of determining and indicating
> > "layer health" - to date I don't think we've managed to figure out
> > anything practical for that.
> 
> At least meta-kf5 is a candidate. I think it has never worked and
> meta-qt5-extra is (try give my best) - maintained.

Interesting - I hadn't seen that you're covering KDE in meta-qt5-extra. Johan, 
would you be OK with meta-kf5 being dropped in favour of what's in meta-qt5-
extra?

> What about meta-kde4?

It seems Samuel has switched himself to "Inactive" - we probably need some 
kind of alert when the last active maintainer of a layer does that. For now 
I've at least added a note to the entry. Samuel, do you have any opinions on 
what we should do with the listing? Or anyone else?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre