From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ROs1b-0001Vc-Nk for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:24:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 10893 invoked by uid 1003); 11 Nov 2011 14:17:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.111?) (philip@opensdr.com@96.240.172.5) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Nov 2011 14:17:52 -0000 Message-ID: <4EBD2E8F.6060400@balister.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:17:51 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Guidelines for creating a layer 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: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:24:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to hack the subject and delete the earlier conversation, but Koen raises a good point here and I do not want it lost in the earlier discussion since I among others stopped reading the emails in detail. Is there a good set of guidelines on the web site (not buried in a git repo) to guide people making the decision when to create a new layer, as opposed to contributing to an existing layer? How do we make sure layers are well thought out and not people taking the path of least resistance? Philip -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [oe] RFC Creation of a meta-telephony repository Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:45:52 +0100 From: Koen Kooi Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Having worked with layers for quite a while now I go through the following list before creating one: Does it need to be a layer? -> no -> send patches to existing layers | yes | Does it need to be a seperate repo? -> no -> send patches to existing repos | yes | Is github/gitorious/etc good enough? -> no -> ... | yes | Create repo + layer And after a I while re-evaluate it. regards, Koen _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel