From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [216.168.135.167]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E923C764BA for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17139 invoked by uid 1003); 7 Aug 2015 09:17:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.3?) (philip@opensdr.com@91.114.166.170) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 7 Aug 2015 09:17:36 -0000 To: Khem Raj , Alexander Kanavin References: <1436426071-3790-1-git-send-email-leimaohui@cn.fujitsu.com> <56502.10.252.20.69.1436441609.squirrel@linux.intel.com> <1436601450.3310.27.camel@linuxfoundation.org> <55BA134F.9010908@linux.intel.com> <55BB5F06.4010901@linux.intel.com> From: Philip Balister Message-ID: <55C477AE.8030308@balister.org> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:17:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: meta-gplv2? [Was Re: parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3] 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, 07 Aug 2015 09:17:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/07/2015 08:12 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Alexander Kanavin > wrote: >> My issue here is quality control. Someone still has to review the work of >> those volunteer developers, and take action when they fail to take action. >> Yocto at the moment does not have such a self-sustaining community process - >> it all still goes through 'core' oe-core developers, and those developers >> can't have any more workload. > > its a delicate balance of usability of target audience as well. If you > make it high quality but ignore real use case of end users you lose > and you lose otherway around too. > Thanks Khem. I also do not agree that we lack a self-sustaining community. OpenEmbedded has functioned independently for far longer than the Yocto Project has existed. Philip