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 015F3768B5 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9392 invoked by uid 1003); 10 Aug 2015 19:15:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.3?) (philip@opensdr.com@91.114.161.250) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Aug 2015 19:15:52 -0000 To: Alexander Kanavin , Khem Raj 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> <55C477AE.8030308@balister.org> <55C4A405.6050209@linux.intel.com> <55C637DB.9010106@balister.org> <55C8956D.9080508@linux.intel.com> From: Philip Balister Message-ID: <55C8F83F.4010003@balister.org> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:15:11 +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: <55C8956D.9080508@linux.intel.com> 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: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:16:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/10/2015 02:13 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On 08/08/2015 08:09 PM, Philip Balister wrote: >>> By 'self-sustaining' I mean 'being able to continuously produce quality >>> work'. Looking at layers in meta-openembedded, not all of them are of >>> high quality. Meta-gnome in particular is badly out of date, because no >>> one wants to maintain it properly. If oe-core starts taking a lot more >>> volunteer contributions, and the same thing happens (a volunteer >>> contributes a large set of recipes, then disappears), what is supposed >>> to happen then? >> >> You are missing the point. We now use layers to segregate sets of >> recipes o stuff that is not interesting to many people and becomes >> obsolete may decline without compromising heavily used layers. This is >> all part of the evolution of OpenEmbedded over many, many years. >> >> If people lose interest in meta-gplv2, then so be it. > > This is perfectly fine with me. However, the subject has been whether > the scope of *oe-core/poky* can be expanded without compromising What is Poky? Philip > quality. I'm not sure at which point it got confused with general OE, so > I can only refer you back to several emails up this thread: > > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108037.html > > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108167.html > > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108208.html > > > > Alex >