[RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[Koen Kooi]

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.

What do you think of this?

regards,

Koen

Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[Ken Gilmer]

I'm writing some OE tools and there seems to be some variance in
hardware and distro specific overlays that may not be entirely
necessary.  Additionally I have hesitated to submit most of what I work
on upstream due to the amount of effort to test against stock OE-dev
from Poky-Bug.  So, yes, +1 for this if it reduces unnecessary variance
and making it easier to test packages cross-distro and cross-machine.

thx
ken

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:25 +0100, Koen Kooi 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.
> 
> What do you think of this?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
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Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[John Willis]

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.

In time I would love to get to a model for Pandora specific stuff where
hacks go user.collection > openpandora.dev > (hopefully)
openembedded.dev/stable. Mirroring the GIT for openpandora.dev (or whatever
the final name we settle on is) on git.oe.net seems very sensible to me.
This also fits with possible ideas such as a 'for-upstream' branch to manage
upwards movement.

I am in the progress of moving/consolidating all the OpenPandora GIT stuff
onto one server (git.openpandora.org) so as soon as that is done then I can
see no reason not to start the mirroring even if we are still loading stuff
in and tweaking.

Regards,

John Willis

Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

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

Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Koen Kooi 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.
>
> What do you think of this?

Will those be read-only mirrors or read-writeable branches/forks?

-- 
Denys

Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net

[Koen Kooi]

On 15-01-09 18:25, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Koen Kooi 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.
>>
>> What do you think of this?
>
> Will those be read-only mirrors or read-writeable branches/forks?

That'd be for the overlay owner(s) to decide.

regards,

Koen