From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [206.46.252.42] (helo=vms042pub.verizon.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LNUCs-0002UK-WC for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:32:31 +0100 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([71.255.246.155]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0KDI0049OQTOQ7P0@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:25:00 -0600 (CST) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C8E9C6B83B5; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:24:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:24:59 -0500 From: Denys Dmytriyenko In-reply-to: <07FF17F1860B45E8953571020236997C@distantearth.home> To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20090115152459.GA15943@denix.org> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <07FF17F1860B45E8953571020236997C@distantearth.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:31 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:45:23PM -0000, John Willis wrote: > Hi, > > > There are a lot of OE based projects around that use an overlay to > > manage their tweaks (e.g. gumstix, openpandora, arago), which has pros > > and cons. A while ago I was talking to John Willis (of open2x and > > openpandora fame) and he liked the idea of mirroring the pandora overlay > > on git.oe.net to make it more visible and to make it easier for OE > > developers to work on making pieces of it upstream safe. > > I think a git mirror of poky would fall in this category as well. > > Get's my vote. As I mentioned on IRC the current OpenPandora model uses 3 > overlays. With the 3rd one being a simple user.collection that local Pandora > specific recipes go into before working there way upwards. >From Arago perspective I'm in favor of this proposal as well. Thanks. -- Denys