Re: FW: [yocto-patches] [meta-java] QA Issue: Missing Upstream-Status in patch

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 11:03 +0100, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 at 01:34, Mingyu Wang (Fujitsu)
> <wangmy@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > The only answer is: meta-java has no maintainer, and Tim, or
> > > anyone
> > > else, is unable to help you. You need to become the maintainer
> > > first.
> > 
> > I wonder if it means that I or somebody else can become the
> > maintainer of meta-java?
> 
> What you can do is make a fork of meta-java somewhere public
> (typically we suggest github, but that might be difficult for you to
> access from PRC). Then you can add your patches and fixes in it, and
> send announcements here when there are significant enhancements. If
> there's a good track record and commitment to making it work
> according
> to official yocto layer standards, then we can make it official.

We could also provide a contrib/ branch in the repo which you could
push your changes too as a staging area.

Cheers,

Richard