From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [128.131.95.14] (helo=belief.htu.tuwien.ac.at) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jut4F-0001AJ-B5 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 19:41:08 +0200 Received: by belief.htu.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix, from userid 10004) id 8F98E83755; Sat, 10 May 2008 19:40:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:40:05 +0200 From: Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20080510174005.GA28630@deadlock.dhs.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: RFC: reverse the name change for org.oe.stable X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10b4 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:41:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 03:53:52PM +0200, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > I am concerned about the loss of reputation that OE is incurring because > the .stable guys are willfully ignoring the official bug tracker. I > think it should be renamed back to angstrom$whateveritwasbefore. We > can't seriously be telling guys all the time "report your problems to > the BTS" and then have the "official" stable branch completely and > willfully ignore it. I'd go as far as requesting it should be denied > the org.openembedded.* namespace in monotone. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/18400/focus=18462 > I've been following the threads on oe.stable and this leads to some questions: what is the "official" definition of the oe.stable branch? at first I had the impression that it is intended for product development (hence - stable), is this the case or was this a misconception? is there any point in submitting bugs to BTS vs. oe.stable (i.e. can at least some help regarding those bugs be expected)? is the stable branch actively maintained (well, the answer to this probably results from the anwer to the previous question)? Please don't get me wrong, it is not my intention to get in the middle of the discussion about reversing names or whatever. I use OE for product development and I ultimately need to know what branch I should base my work on. It would also be nice if the status of the branches gets clearly communicated once this discussion is over. I think it's important that people who do product dev know where to start and what to expect. Again, just to make it clear: my argument is not about usage of BTS/maintenance/naming/etc., it's about a clear communication on the status of things, so that people know what branch to choose. Kind regards, Jin