Re: Plans for OE classic future

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf_samuelsson@telia.com>]

On 2011-11-25 23:04, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> After all, isn't one of the purposes of OE to promote information sharing,
>> cooperation and the use of openembedded technology (and not make things
>> harder).
> One of the points of making master read-only would be to ensure that
> changes aren't lost.
>
> Perhaps the transition needs to be:
> - master is as it is today
> - master becomes oe-core backport || master-only bugfixes only
> - master becomes read only.
>
> And we go from the first step to the second step sometime sooner
> rather than later.  The top of my head date would be before the
> paid-developers go on end of year breaks to try and make sure all the
> hobbyist folks start their hacking with oe-core+etc rather than master
> and risk getting caught later.  I'm open to arguments on why that's
> exactly backwards...
>

Won't it be a problem for existing projects, if you cannot add fixes to 
cope with new host OS versions.

At the moment, openembedded-classic does not build properly with Ubuntu 
11.10 .

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Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson