From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72063601AA for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10150 invoked by uid 1003); 10 Jan 2014 16:02:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.8.0.6?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.41.155) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Jan 2014 16:02:58 -0000 Message-ID: <52D019B1.6090905@balister.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:02:57 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trevor Woerner References: <52CEEE43.1090209@linaro.org> <36564971.Qsvan2fIrZ@helios> <52D01717.605@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <52D01717.605@linaro.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: openembedded-core Subject: Re: unmaintained layers X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:02:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/10/2014 10:51 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On 01/10/14 09:01, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> This is all very interesting with people piping up that their layers >> are maintained, but I'm not sure it helps solve the overall problem. > >> Also, if it does appear that a layer has gone "unmaintained" by >> popular consensus, what should actually be done about it? > > I was hoping I could put together a list of the layers which are no > longer maintained to see if we could find people who might be interested > in stepping up and taking on their maintenance. Or at the very least, > clarifying a given layers' maintenance status. > > At the last OE TSC meeting the issue of unmaintained layers was brought > up, I asked several times if people could specify to which layers they > were referring, but nobody replied. So people are concerned about layers > that have no maintainer, but nobody can say which ones (?). In my > opinion I thought it would be easier to solve this problem if we could > at least start by defining it. BTW, I maintain meta-sdr. Philip > > As to what can be done about it: if a layer is not maintained, and > nobody cares for the layer, we should drop it from the list or at least > mark it as such ("buyer beware"). If a layer is not maintained, and > people do care, then we'll need to try to find someone to take > responsibility for it (we should, at the very least, make the attempt). > Also I think we should identify layers that people do care about, whose > maintenance is questionable, which are not hosted in a way where the > community can apply necessary patches to easily. > > Best regards, > Trevor > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >