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

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

śr., 11 mar 2020 o 14:28 Nicolas Dechesne
<nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> napisał(a):
>
> hi Bartosz,
>
> 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.
>> >
>>
>> Hi Khem,
>>
>> gentle ping on this. What is the procedure of hosting a layer at OE?
>

Hi Nicolas,

thanks for the response.

>
> 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]
>

I'm not sure what that means exactly in terms of making a layer
official. I can only guess that non-members can't make their layers
part of the project for political reasons.

> 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
>

Yes, that is one way, but I just don't like githubs, gitlabs and other
bitbuckets. I prefer regular mailing list flow + cgit whenever
possible.

> 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.
>

They are also scattered all over and significant part of them are not
being actively maintained. Hosting it at some official git would at
least mean that if I ever stop working on it, someone else could take
over without moving the git tree. It would also make it more visible
and make it possible for the development to happen on the official
mailing list.

Anyway: is the material I described in this thread something that
could be committed to various existing parts of meta-openembedded
without creating a new layer?

> In any case you should register your layer in the OE layer index.
>

Sure.

>
> [1] https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC
> [2] https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/TSC

Thanks,
Bartosz Golaszewski