Re: How to submit patches upstream for repos at git.yoctoproject.org (eg meta-renesas)

[Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>]

Hi Paul,

On 08/13/2015 02:21 PM, Paul Sherwood wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am not affiliated to any Yocto Project member organisation, but am
> assisting with integration at the Automotive Grade Linux project, which
> is re-using some work from upstreams at git.yoctoproject.org
>
> Recently members of the AGL community have started contributing patches
> for meta-renesas at our mirror [1]. We would like to offer this and
> future work to upstream, and I am hoping to understand so that I can
> help guide AGL's activities so that we are properly aligned. Please can
> someone guide us on the accepted way to offer these and subsequent patches?
>
> br
> Paul
>
> [1] https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/#/c/4047/

Haven't seen you for a quite a while after Karlsruhe, hope you're doing
fine.

Regarding the upstreaming guidelines, the usual steps apply - ask
contributors to push patches as close to the upstream project as
possible, and just then go downstream, like this (in order of
preference):

1. Upstream components
2. Yocto meta layer (which you are reusing)
3. AGL repos

Also, it would be great if your AGL maintainers can enforce appropriate
patch tracking by Upstream-status tag + description, as it will help
everyone.

Kind regards,
Nikolay