[oe] [meta-java] maintainer status

[Richard Leitner]

On 06/07/2018 03:56 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Richard Leitner
> <richard.leitner at skidata.com> wrote:
> ....
>> As I'm using this layer now for quite a few years I'll be glad to help you with
>> the maintainership of meta-java. Nonetheless I have to admit that I have no
>> experience in maintaining an openembedded layer ;-)
>>
>> Therefore if you're still interested I'd have some questions regarding the
>> "strategic" targets, workflows and stuff like that...
> 
> Awesome, new energy!
> 
> Sure, go ahead and ask :-D
> 

Thanks :-)

So here are some question that currently came to my mind:

 * do you use some kind of patch management software (like patchwork)?

 * are there any "quality gate tests" for patches being applied to master or stable branches?

 * is there something like a build/test robot for patches and/or branches?

 * should we use the master-next branch for staging new patches?

 * is there a reason for not having OpenJDK >8 recipes?

 * if the above is answered with something like "because nobody submitted them": Should we try to follow the current OpenJDK release model (a feature release every six month)?

 * based on what scheduling are the stable branches created? Yocto Project release dates I guess?

 * what kind of patches should be applied/backported to the stable branches?


I think that's all for now (but presumably some more question will follow during the next weeks) ;-)

regards;Richard.L