[oe] Splitting meta-oe?

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> The recent storm of breakage in meta-oe caused by recipe specific sysroots
> was quite dramatic:
>
> ross at flashheart ~/Yocto/meta-oe ((044e518...))
> $ git grep PNBLACKLIST| wc -l
> 320
>
> Is it time to talk about splitting meta-oe into smaller real repositories
> so they can be maintained at their own pace by more maintainers?
>

I think thats a fine idea, however, it needs maintainers to sign up
first before any of this can be sustained. I think it was forewarned
that such a change is coming. recipe maintainers or users should have
risen up and sent patches. This can not be solved even if you divide
the layer into smaller layers. Problems still remains. Whats required
is to look other way, where we have
faster infrastructure to test meta-openemebedded layers and ease out
maintainer's job by testing and working though the changes. Blacklist
is infact the better way to disable the recipes instead of shuffling
layers. One still has a good base to start and fix it.