From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6CB4C81231; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:43:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 09:43:42 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,316,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="865977495" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.189]) ([10.255.13.189]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 09:43:41 -0800 Message-ID: <4CFFC3C3.4090003@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:43:31 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <1291812548.1554.475.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1291812548.1554.475.camel@rex> Cc: yocto , poky Subject: Re: Adding extra metadata to Yocto/Poky X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:43:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/08/2010 04:49 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > Hi, > > We're in a position where we have people wanting to extend Poky but > wondering exactly how to add their own layer and make Poky useful for > their specific use cases. > > This is a topic I want to work with the OE community on and have > discussion about but equally, people are interested at the moment and we > need something people can experiment with now so we can see what works > and what doesn't. > > With this in mind I'm proposing we create a "poky-extras" repository > which contains multiple user contributed layers. > > My proposed ground rules are: > > * it has the OE style open contributions model > * consists of a set of layers, each clearly identified at the top level > * each layer has a clearly named maintainer or maintainers > * people respect the layer maintainers > * layers are split into logical "topics" where at all possible > > Ultimately, the repo structure and some of the details could change but > I'd like to experiment and see what we can come up with which is > probably the only way we're going to move forward. > > Any comments, objections or better ideas? :) Sounds like a good approach to me. What would the expectation of "lifecycle" be? Will these layers move to the poky git repository after some proven time to join things like meta-linaro and meta-demo (which should be renamed meta-dlna) or should we move these layers to poky-extras too? -- Darren Hart Yocto Linux Kernel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6CB4C81231; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:43:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 09:43:42 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,316,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="865977495" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.189]) ([10.255.13.189]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 09:43:41 -0800 Message-ID: <4CFFC3C3.4090003@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:43:31 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <1291812548.1554.475.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1291812548.1554.475.camel@rex> Cc: yocto , poky Subject: Re: [poky] Adding extra metadata to Yocto/Poky X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:43:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/08/2010 04:49 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > Hi, > > We're in a position where we have people wanting to extend Poky but > wondering exactly how to add their own layer and make Poky useful for > their specific use cases. > > This is a topic I want to work with the OE community on and have > discussion about but equally, people are interested at the moment and we > need something people can experiment with now so we can see what works > and what doesn't. > > With this in mind I'm proposing we create a "poky-extras" repository > which contains multiple user contributed layers. > > My proposed ground rules are: > > * it has the OE style open contributions model > * consists of a set of layers, each clearly identified at the top level > * each layer has a clearly named maintainer or maintainers > * people respect the layer maintainers > * layers are split into logical "topics" where at all possible > > Ultimately, the repo structure and some of the details could change but > I'd like to experiment and see what we can come up with which is > probably the only way we're going to move forward. > > Any comments, objections or better ideas? :) Sounds like a good approach to me. What would the expectation of "lifecycle" be? Will these layers move to the poky git repository after some proven time to join things like meta-linaro and meta-demo (which should be renamed meta-dlna) or should we move these layers to poky-extras too? -- Darren Hart Yocto Linux Kernel