[oe] [meta-ota][PATCH] meta-ota: add support for binary-delta images in a new layer

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:28 AM Nicolas Dechesne
<nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 9:04 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
>> wt., 3 mar 2020 o 14:56 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> napisał(a):
>> >
>> > If this is not something that should be part of meta-openembedded - is
>> > there any way to have it hosted at https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/
>> > as an official yocto layer? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I
>> > don't know exactly what the policy is for that.
>> gentle ping on this. What is the procedure of hosting a layer at OE?
>
> it depends what you mean here.
>
> 1. Hosting on git.yoctoproject.org is mostly for layers supported by YP membership, these layers are under the responsibility of the YP TSC [1]
> 2. Hosting on git.openembedded.org is under the responsibility of the OE TSC [2]
>
> We recently started an initiative using gitlab, to host layers: https://gitlab.com/openembedded/community, though it's not picking up much for now. But that would be another option, Paul B. or myself could give you access
>
> You might want to host the layer on your own (github, gitlab or anywhere else). I understand why you think that hosting on yoctoproject.org would make it 'more' official, however hundreds of layers are 'self hosted' and it's usually not a big concern.
>
> In any case you should register your layer in the OE layer index.
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC
> [2] https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/TSC

I've been preferring github over gitlab but either works. I also think
we ought to put it under one of those platforms and rely on those for
future.


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