From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [209.85.218.213] (helo=mail-bw0-f213.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LZZHu-0004Ry-KQ for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:23:43 +0100 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4421338bwz.12 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:21:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SVJECndRSJkexiovAAhIjgtw6Cnjnud/2bS2eJ7GscM=; b=jiMLpXad/COOfuBmLDqMs7O6Wi62RMwW/g16iWIWeqCDn/v9Y9aB79/Nn1FgDWKaBC l4aF1I3lgfjathq/pLlJJJNdjk+X5lOxjjTpkJqRsmn9WOTKQczk6dsNvZWwmm62cNaZ NCdMKPrJ1ExuqVjNqmdy8IBVSUd8JuvMBzMz4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jI3ZrM1FhKjHxqwQ7iec+PR+2xNOaUihltRrqSuQ1NdKbk/9cttoBLo1/Vvf9AYJlm +K4uertViN5dJcvBjzmvBSrzyI1xA2cNZtNQIwnYx5sayFHl3GLh/O/qD96q6jl5KT5H xdinLzgXdKqtvoW7RiT2bfOHIJ5PcAIcdJ4cc= Received: by 10.223.113.199 with SMTP id b7mr141644faq.83.1234912892903; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.31.4.167? (mscitspubwlgw.wustl.edu [128.252.55.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j27sm20036099ugc.12.2009.02.17.15.21.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:21:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499B4678.4030202@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:21:28 -0600 From: Junqian Gordon Xu User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <499AD8D6.3000708@balister.org> <499B1606.3040406@opensimpad.org> <20090217215529.GJ11815@smtp.west.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20090217215529.GJ11815@smtp.west.cox.net> Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: Autobuilder bugs versus stable branch being updated 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: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:24:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/17/2009 03:55 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:54:46PM +0100, Bernhard Guillon wrote: >> Rolf Leggewie wrote: >>> Philip, >>> >>> thank you for your comment. >>> >>> Philip Balister wrote: >>>> I think it is a but of stretch to close old autobuilder bugs with the >>>> comment the stable branch will not be updated. >>> That should not be the case (unless of course they were both of type >>> .stable and -autobuild). >>> >> We should create a new stable branch. The old one drifted too much away >> from .dev which makes it hard to backport things from .dev to stable. > > The problem really is a policy one. The old stable was "angstrom > snapped for 2007 here". That's one way to do a stable branch, but not > what everyone thinks when they read "stable". How much would it hurt to > have OE actually do releases, rather than to be, in kernel terms, mostly > like Andrew's tree (once stuff seems to work for some people, pull it > in, see what breaks)? +1 for releases instead of snap short, which was proven not working for the users. > > And of course, who would volunteer to actually try and maintain such > things and get everyone using the various branches that would have to > entail, correctly? > I can maintain the user space stuffs and communicate/bug core members for stuff that I do not understand. In terms of machines, I will keep an eye on tosa and spitz. I've been away for a while since the git conversion (now half-way through the git manual), but I always try to keep up with the mailing lists. Regards Gordon