Stable branch maintainership

Stable branch maintainership

[Khem Raj]

Dear Community members,

Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
maintenance.

We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
walnascar at the moment and
a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
mailing lists on pending
updates for the stable branches

I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
maintainers role. Which would
be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
them and creating a staging
branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
preparing final pull.

Armin used his own machines to run the CI, we now do have a machine
available for OE CI
which we should be able to use for the CI loops for these branches if needed.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Thank you
-Khem

Re: [oe] Stable branch maintainership

[Mittal, Anuj]

On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 14:47 -0700, Khem Raj via lists.openembedded.org
wrote:
> Dear Community members,
> 
> Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
> meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
> changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
> maintenance.
> 
> We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
> walnascar at the moment and
> a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
> mailing lists on pending
> updates for the stable branches
> 
> I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
> maintainers role. Which would
> be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
> them and creating a staging
> branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
> preparing final pull.

I would be happy to take on this work.

Thanks,

Anuj

Re: [oe] Stable branch maintainership

[Gyorgy Sarvari]

I would be also interested in trying myself as a stable maintainer,
unless someone has any strong opinion against it (in which case you
should speak up).


On 9/8/25 23:47, Khem Raj via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Dear Community members,
>
> Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
> meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
> changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
> maintenance.
>
> We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
> walnascar at the moment and
> a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
> mailing lists on pending
> updates for the stable branches
>
> I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
> maintainers role. Which would
> be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
> them and creating a staging
> branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
> preparing final pull.
>
> Armin used his own machines to run the CI, we now do have a machine
> available for OE CI
> which we should be able to use for the CI loops for these branches if needed.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you
>
> Thank you
> -Khem
>
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Re: Stable branch maintainership

[Khem Raj]

Hello All,

Thanks for considering this and responding to the call.

Anuj and Gyrogy have offered to help in maintaining the stable
branches and Ankur Tyagi has also offered to help with the stable
branch workflow. I will work with all of them in dividing
Thanks for signing up for this work. For now, Anuj will be maintaining
scarthgap LTS release, Gyorgy will maintain Kirkstone LTS and
Walnascar releases. We will work towards infra and process next.

Thanks
-Khem

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Community members,
>
> Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
> meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
> changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
> maintenance.
>
> We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
> walnascar at the moment and
> a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
> mailing lists on pending
> updates for the stable branches
>
> I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
> maintainers role. Which would
> be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
> them and creating a staging
> branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
> preparing final pull.
>
> Armin used his own machines to run the CI, we now do have a machine
> available for OE CI
> which we should be able to use for the CI loops for these branches if needed.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you
>
> Thank you
> -Khem

Re: Stable branch maintainership

[Khem Raj]

Hi all,

We have pushed the first batch of updates for
scarthgap/kirkstone/walnascar overseen by our new release maintainers.
I do realize that we might have missed some patches
during this transition. Please bring any pending patches to the
maintainers attention. We will be working on refining the patch
testing, CI, and automation for release branches
going forward.

Thank you
-Khem

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Thanks for considering this and responding to the call.
>
> Anuj and Gyrogy have offered to help in maintaining the stable
> branches and Ankur Tyagi has also offered to help with the stable
> branch workflow. I will work with all of them in dividing
> Thanks for signing up for this work. For now, Anuj will be maintaining
> scarthgap LTS release, Gyorgy will maintain Kirkstone LTS and
> Walnascar releases. We will work towards infra and process next.
>
> Thanks
> -Khem
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Community members,
> >
> > Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
> > meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
> > changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
> > maintenance.
> >
> > We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
> > walnascar at the moment and
> > a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
> > mailing lists on pending
> > updates for the stable branches
> >
> > I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
> > maintainers role. Which would
> > be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
> > them and creating a staging
> > branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
> > preparing final pull.
> >
> > Armin used his own machines to run the CI, we now do have a machine
> > available for OE CI
> > which we should be able to use for the CI loops for these branches if needed.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you
> >
> > Thank you
> > -Khem

RE: [oe] Stable branch maintainership

[Marko, Peter]

From my patches, only this one was missed:
https://patchwork.yoctoproject.org/project/oe/patch/20250814204404.2906229-1-peter.marko@siemens.com/
(kirkstone and walnascar vaiants were taken, scarthgap not)

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
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> devel@lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Khem Raj via
> lists.openembedded.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 4:49
> To: openembeded-devel <Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: Re: [oe] Stable branch maintainership
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have pushed the first batch of updates for
> scarthgap/kirkstone/walnascar overseen by our new release maintainers.
> I do realize that we might have missed some patches
> during this transition. Please bring any pending patches to the
> maintainers attention. We will be working on refining the patch
> testing, CI, and automation for release branches
> going forward.
> 
> Thank you
> -Khem
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Thanks for considering this and responding to the call.
> >
> > Anuj and Gyrogy have offered to help in maintaining the stable
> > branches and Ankur Tyagi has also offered to help with the stable
> > branch workflow. I will work with all of them in dividing
> > Thanks for signing up for this work. For now, Anuj will be maintaining
> > scarthgap LTS release, Gyorgy will maintain Kirkstone LTS and
> > Walnascar releases. We will work towards infra and process next.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Khem
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Community members,
> > >
> > > Armin has been doing awesome work in maintaining stable release for
> > > meta-openembedded layers for many releases, however his situation has
> > > changed such that he is not able to continue the meta-oe stable
> > > maintenance.
> > >
> > > We have three branches in maintenance, kirstone, scarthgap and
> > > walnascar at the moment and
> > > a backlog has been piling up. Several members have raised concerns on
> > > mailing lists on pending
> > > updates for the stable branches
> > >
> > > I would love to have someone step up to help with the stable
> > > maintainers role. Which would
> > > be looking for stable branch patches on mailing lists and reviewing
> > > them and creating a staging
> > > branch ( like contrib/stable/kirkstone-nut etc ), testing and
> > > preparing final pull.
> > >
> > > Armin used his own machines to run the CI, we now do have a machine
> > > available for OE CI
> > > which we should be able to use for the CI loops for these branches if needed.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to hearing from you
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > -Khem

Re: Stable branch maintainership

[Ashish Mishra]

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Hi Team / Khem Raj ,

I have an patch shared with community https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/119396
If team can have an look
I can work on feedback and review comments if any
Sorry if this is wrong thread .

Thanks ,
Ashish

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Re: [oe] Stable branch maintainership

[Gyorgy Sarvari]

On 9/18/25 09:14, Ashish Mishra via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Hi Team / Khem Raj , 
>  
> I have an patch shared with community
> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/119396 
> If team can have an look

This patch has been accepted 3 days ago:
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/meta-oe/classes/image_types_sparse.bbclass?id=f5246b7df447ac76ec04c6e5add398862d1c9ccd

It is rare to get feedback for accepted patches. It is recommended to
check on the master-next and master branches 2 or 3 days after the
submission to what's going on.

> I can work on feedback and review comments if any 
> Sorry if this is wrong thread .
>  
> Thanks ,
> Ashish 
>  
>
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