Re: Bugzilla Re-organization

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 12-06-01 01:43 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
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> On 05/31/2012 08:37 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 12-05-31 2:27 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/25/2012 03:38 PM, Michael Halstead wrote:
>>>> The first draft of the reorganized bugzilla is available for feedback
>>>> now at https://bugzilla.yoctodev.org/. Outgoing e-mail is currently
>>>> disabled on this preview copy. Please feel free to take a look and see
>>>> if you spot any errors. Additional refinement of  product or component
>>>> descriptions will be helpful as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to me one should be able to find the linux-yocto kernel itself
>>> under the Yocto Project Components from the basic search page. Currently
>>> there is Kernel Tooling and BSPs, but there are times when the bug is
>>> not BSP specific and is in the kernel itself, not the tooling. For this,
>>> a hierarchy like the following might be preferable:
>>>
>>> Yocto Project Components
>>>     BSPs
>>>       bsps
>>>     Kernel
>>>       linux-yocto
>>>       configuration
>>>       kernel-tooling
>>
>> +1. I completely agree with this.
>>
>>>
>>> I am still not sure how best to deal with BSPs here and BSPs in Build
>>> System&   Metadata. I think We should pick one or the other as the
>>> distinction between the two is non-obvious (actually I have no idea what
>>> it would be).
>>
>> Agreed .. that this is hard. If we used 'configuration' for the kernel
>> category, could the build system + meta data fall into that as well
>> under BSPs ?
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>>      BSPs
>>        bsps - runtime
>>        bsps - configuration
>
> I think so. I like this better.
>
> Tom, any objections?
>
> Yocto Project Components
>     BSPs
>       bsps-runtime
>       bsps-configuration
>     Kernel
>       linux-yocto
>       kernel-configuration
>       kernel-tooling
>
> The other Kernel related path would include
> Build System&  Metadata
>    Layers - OpenEmbedded-Core
>      kernel
>
> This would be for the kernel.bbclass and other recipes and classes.
>
> I think we should just kill:
> Build System&  Metadata
>    Layers - BSPs
>
> and move all the BSP components under Yocto Project Components->BSPs
>
> Finally there is:
>
> Build System&  Metadata
>    Layers - meta-yocto
>      machines
>
> Which should just go away and be replaced witha BSPs->meta-yocto
> component, if anything.
>
> So, the final layout would be:
>
> Yocto Project Components
>     BSPs
>       bsps-runtime
>       bsps-configuration (these top too being "generic" buckets)
>       bsps-meta-yocto
>       bsps-meta-fsl-ppc
>       bsps-meta-intel
>       bsps-meta-ti
>       bsps-tools
>       bsps-xilinx (meta-xilinx?)
>
>     Kernel
>       linux-yocto
>       kernel-configuration
>       kernel-tooling
>
> I believe this would make it much easier for us to manage Kernel related
> issues across the project.

Agreed. This makes sense to me.

+1

Bruce

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> --
> Darren
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>
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>>
>>> Tom, Bruce: opinions on the above?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Build System&   Metadata" and "Yocto Metadata Layers" use different
>>> naming schemes for the components in the various layers products. Some
>>> use meta- others do not.
>>>
>>>
>>
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