From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385CDE014F4; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r5SD2piw003118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.146.67] (128.224.146.67) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:02:51 -0700 Message-ID: <51CD8973.7020704@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:02:43 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <1372409484.9930.245.camel@ted> <51CD86F1.7090409@windriver.com> <1372424223.9930.257.camel@ted> In-Reply-To: <1372424223.9930.257.camel@ted> Cc: "Hart, Darren" , yocto Subject: Re: poky-extras X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:02:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13-06-28 08:57 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 08:52 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: >> On 13-06-28 04:51 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> Hi Bruce/Darren, >>> >>> My attention was drawn to the existence of poky-extras. This was really >>> a short term gap filling repository and I think the time has come to >>> remove it. There are basically two chunks of code in there. >>> >>> The meta-linaro pieces in there haven't been touched in two years and >>> are therefore dead. I think we should delete them to alleviate any >>> confusion. >>> >>> The kernel pieces have been touched more recently. Some moved into the >>> core, mostly its just example boiler plate type code now. I think this >>> needs moving to a better named repository if its still wanted/useful, or >>> we delete it. I personally don't have a strong preference. >>> >>> Can someone take care of sorting this out? >> >> I can take care of finding it a new home. I use the repo daily, and keep >> bumping it with examples with each new kernel update or release. I was >> working on some urlremapper code for the layer, to replace the old >> boiler plate "uncomment this" examples that are current in the recipes .. >> that work has been backgrounded, but I can pick it up again as part >> of relocating the changes. >> >> I'm out of the office for the next week and a half, but can have a look >> after that. Does that timeframe work ? > > Yes, its not urgent and I don't want to remove something people use. I > do think that this would better as a meta-yocto-kernel or something > similar. How about we simply rename it to that and delete meta-linaro > from it? Agreed. That's an effective way to clarify what's left in the layer. I'll take care of cleaning up the contents later. If it's just the rename, I assume Michael can take care of it and there's nothing immediate for me to do. Cheers, Bruce > > Cheers, > > Richard > >