Re: Plans for OE classic future

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>]

On 24.11.2011 18:47, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 24-11-11 12:43, Paul Eggleton schreef:
>> On Thursday 24 November 2011 12:33:29 Paul Menzel wrote:
>>> You seem to use OE-core and meta-oe already so I understand your point 
>>> of view. Martin, Koen, Andreas and you are doing the major work for 
>>> meta-oe and not a lot of other people contribute.
>>>
>>> In my opinion it is a bad sign to force people to switch. OE-core and 
>>> meta-oe should be so appealing that they switch by themselves. My 
>>> impression from reading the list and from IRC is that a lot of people 
>>> still have objections and are not totally comfortable. Good community 
>>> management would be to listen to these people then try to find
>>> solutions and implement them. People then should come by themselves.
> 
>> Let's not get carried away. In the current discussion it seems the main 
>> objection to switching from several people is that they are in the middle
>> or close to the end of their development cycle on products that depend on
>> OE- classic; it's totally understandable that those people can't switch
>> at this time. I'm not entirely convinced those people can't use the
>> 2011.3 maintenance branch for those purposes however.
> 
> Most, if not all people objecting to OE-classic closing seem to be on
> 2011.03-maintenance already. The confusion seems to be rooted into not
> paying attention when Tom said fixes for the maintenance branch can go
> through oe-core/meta-oe/whatever as well. That is even mentioned in the damn
> wiki for the maintenance branch!

Ah, of course. Just tell everybody to switch to oe-core, so they can
backport fixes from there to 2011.03. Sure. That's what everybody who
isn't able to switch to oe-core for some reason will do.

Mentioning your "damn" wiki again and again doesn't help anybody.

Regards,
Andreas