https://www.openembedded.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Ycongal+smile 2026-05-05T18:09:20Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.39.10 https://www.openembedded.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecation_Policy&diff=11222 2024-07-16T16:45:06Z

<p>Ycongal smile: Improve wiki markup (proper wiki lists)</p> <hr /> <div>= Recipes and metadata deprecation policy =<br /> <br /> <br /> Here is deprecation policy and guidelines for recipes and related metadata maintained in layers under meta-openembedded repository<br /> <br /> = Why: =<br /> <br /> * Reduce the security gap<br /> * Increase quality of layer and recipes<br /> * Reduce technical debt<br /> * Improved developer productivity<br /> <br /> = Challenges: =<br /> <br /> * Obsolete code adds to maintenance burden.<br /> * Old code consumes developers’ time which could be better focused elsewhere<br /> * Can’t tell who is using things<br /> * Sometimes recipes are one-off contributions which are unmaintained<br /> * There might be a perception that obsolete/removed recipes from OE-Core can be added to meta-oe<br /> * Users aren’t often paying attention to development branches, only release branches<br /> * Full meta-openembedded builds consume significant resources. Long builds slow down development and narrows down testing matrix<br /> * Obsolete recipes adds inertia towards new developments<br /> * Older/obsolete recipes tend to become of poorer quality more so over time as they are either not brought to use latest stuff or are simply missing it.<br /> <br /> Keeping this in sight, here is a proposal to define some guidelines for community to assess recipe deprecation<br /> <br /> = Deprecation guideline criteria: =<br /> <br /> * Recipe is not buildable<br /> * Recipe has known security issues (particularly high impact ones)<br /> * package's upstream is not actively responding to build or security issues (e.g. a large patch backlog)<br /> * Functionality from recipe has been obsoleted by other recipes and no longer commonly used<br /> * Recipe has no activity upstream (no activity for e.g. 5+ years is a concern)<br /> * Recipe with many architecture exclusions and isn’t portable but not hardware specific recipe<br /> * It is not a key dependency for large set of recipes/layers (check layer index using depends:[recipename])<br /> * Niche specific recipe may better moved to a more focused topic layer<br /> * Poor quality recipe or recipe build environment with no maintainer willing to improve<br /> * Recipe has problematic host dependencies (e.g. 32-bit runtime) and no maintainer improving situation<br /> <br /> = Process: =<br /> <br /> * Maintainer can remove if the decision is clear to them and has discretion over the process<br /> * For unclear situations, exclude from parsing initially with reason documented<br /> * Notification is in the form of a patch adding the exclusion<br /> * After a reasonable time if not fixed, recipe is removed<br /> * Recipe removals scheduled after each release point<br /> * If someone addresses the underlying issues the recipe can be added back or have parsing re-enabled.<br /> * If there is a conflict, issue can be raised to OE TSC for a decision<br /> <br /> [[Category:Policy]]</div>

Ycongal smile https://www.openembedded.org/w/index.php?title=IRC&diff=11119 2023-07-04T13:21:22Z

<p>Ycongal smile: /* Channel-Logs */ Added an alternative link for IRC logs</p> <hr /> <div>= Channels =<br /> Server: irc.libera.chat<br /> * [https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/ #oe] - for discussions relating to the building and testing of Open Embedded and for debugging of the building of distributions with OE. If you need help with a distribution based on OE or a GUI environment shipped with OE, then PLEASE go to one or more of the following channels instead<br /> * [https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/ #yocto] - for discussions relating to the Yocto Project.<br /> <br /> To reduce spam, the irc channels require you to have an account on irc.libera.chat, so anon access via Kiwi irc webclient needs some<br /> setup.<br /> <br /> Register your nickname on irc.libera.chat [https://libera.chat/guides/registration following this instructions]<br /> <br /> = Bots =<br /> There is also infobot, which gathers various information from the channels. Poke around.<br /> <br /> = Channel-Logs =<br /> <br /> Conversation in those channels can be reviewed at:<br /> * https://www.yoctoproject.org/irc/oe/<br /> * https://libera.irclog.whitequark.org/yocto/<br /> <br /> = IRC Clients =<br /> * Mac OS X: http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/ | http://colloquy.info/ | http://www.pidgin.im/<br /> * GNU/Linux, *BSD: http://www.irssi.org/ | https://hexchat.github.io/ | http://www.pidgin.im/<br /> * Windows XP: http://www.xchat.org/ |http://www.pidgin.im/<br /> * Windows Vista/7: http://www.pidgin.im/<br /> * Opie: Opie-Irc <br /> * Firefox: Chatzilla (very easy to install and use)<br /> * https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/<br /> <br /> [[Category:Community]]</div>

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