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

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:51 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
>
> 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.

I would suggest to send the proposal to oe-tsc mailing list
tsc at lists.openembedded.org

>
> > 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

openembedded gitlab presence as an organization is new and being
experimented with eventually
it might or might not become more prominent.

> >
>
> 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