From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [201.35.65.91] (helo=freedom.ind.br) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K7Csh-0003zc-Uh for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:17:07 +0200 Received: from freedom.ind.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freedom.ind.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABEC160E3A for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:15:51 -0300 (BRT) Received: from internet.ossystems.com.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freedom.ind.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AA013CB2A for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:15:49 -0300 (BRT) Received: from internet.ossystems.com.br ([201.40.162.47] helo=internet.ossystems.com.br) by mail.freedom.ind.br; 13 Jun 2008 14:15:48 -0300 Received: from ossystems.com.br (unknown [10.1.0.243]) by internet.ossystems.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA730C1F2 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:16:42 -0300 (BRT) Received: by ossystems.com.br (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 126A6C4857A; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:17:42 -0300 (BRT) To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1213345201.13942.3.camel@dax.rpnet.com> <74d0deb30806130306tf5ca604t7238ab26d715e03@mail.gmail.com> From: Otavio Salvador Organization: O.S. Systems Ltda. X-URL: http://www.debian.org/~otavio/ X-Attribution: O.S. Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:17:42 -0300 In-Reply-To: (Cliff Brake's message of "Fri\, 13 Jun 2008 08\:43\:49 -0400") Message-ID: <87skvhtft5.fsf@neumann.lab.ossystems.com.br> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Switching SCM to git and commit/review policy X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:18:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Cliff Brake" writes: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:06 AM, pHilipp Zabel wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> As always, there is a but. This change is conditional on being able to >>> come up with a sensible commit and review policy for OE.dev. The core >>> team does feel that the metadata quality has dropped over time in some >>> areas and we need to have a better review process. The change to an SCM >>> with good branch support is a vital part of this but not the only part. >>> >>> We've not made any decisions on what the commit/review policy should be, >>> this is open for discussion. We're thinking it may take the form of some >>> kind of kernel style Signed-off-by: tags and a switch to a partially >>> pull based model rather than just push based as we use monotone so more >>> than one developer handles any given change. >> >> Personally, I'd like to see every patch to OE being sent to and >> reviewed on the mailing list. >> About a pull based model, wouldn't we need something like the kernels' >> subsystem maintainers to share the load? Seeing that there already >> seems to be a serious manpower problem, who would have the time to do >> that? > > One of the differences with the OE meta data is that its structure is > rather flat instead of a nice hierarchy like the kernel. Another > problem is an update in one of the core components can often have > unforeseen consequences in other packages. So I don't think there is > any substitute for a lot of testing. A lot of the work to keep it all > going is simply busy-work -- updating URI's, adding new versions of > packages, etc, so I would hate to slow that down. How about coming up > with a list of directories/files that need mail list review: > > - classes > - conf/bitbake.conf > - conf/distro > - packages/images > - packages/tasks > - packages/linux/linux.inc > - packages/glibc/ > .... > > Perhaps with everything else (machines, random packages), it would be > strongly advised that you get sign-off from the maintainer of that > recipe if listed. This would help encourage the maintainers to stay > involved. I guess this together with something like linux-next would be nice. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: otavio@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."