OE name usage

[akuster808]

NM, its already consuming too much of  my free time explaining something
that already consumed my free time in modifying the applications in
question.

apologies for the noise.

On 6/24/19 2:08 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 10:06 -0700, akuster808 wrote:
>> Sorry for cross posting.
>>
>> There are several applications that use distro identification to run 
>> appropriate code paths.
>>
>> I would like to submit changes needed to identify the default OE
>> distro,  one of the identifiers is "openembedded".
> I'd like to understand more specifically what we're talking about and I
> think others will to understand this question. At first read I thought
> you were talking about one thing, now I suspect its another.
>
> There once was significant pushback on OE being "a distro", its a build
> system/architecture. Naming of things does tend to bring out strong
> views and personally, I believe calling everything X, regardless of
> what X is, just makes things worse as then nobody knows what you're
> talking about.
>
> "I used OE and OE to build OE and I'm now running OE on my system".
>
> That said, if we're talking about other applications in the wider
> software ecosystem which already identify debian, fedora and others,
> having a strategy there for OE might be good.
>
> Some specific examples would help a lot.
>
> One challenge is OE is not one thing. If for example that software was
> using it to decide on init system, it would only be right for some set
> of OE built software so we need to be careful.
>
>>  That name does not belong to me so I am not sure what to do. Is
>> notification good enough or some sort of signoff  or approval by  the
>> OE Board, OE TSC or OE membership?
> I'd say a discussion on the openembedded-architecture list would be the
> right place with the TSC getting to mediate if consensus wasn't
> reached, the same as any other technical discussion. The branding piece
> may involve the board if they have a strong view and want to take the
> decision, they may choose to let the TSC handle it, its a grey area.
>
> I would say the OE membership delegated decision making to the board
> and TSC though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>