From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JfYcD-0000ND-1h for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:48:49 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JfYc8-0003Lx-9u for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:48:44 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:48:44 +0000 Received: from koen by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:48:44 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:48:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <022890FE-5E72-489F-B64C-03593101E508@student.utwente.nl> <47E83808.5060501@balister.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news Cc: angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org Subject: Re: [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Changing stable branch commit policy X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:48:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leon Woestenberg schreef: | Hello all, | |> Do you want to write a short blurb on this we can stick on the oe and angstrom websites? regards, Koen | | Sure, a first shot at that (and sorry for cross-posting, but this | really is OE related :-) | | --- | The OpenEmbedded project has started to maintain a stable branch, next | to its development branch, on March 28th 2007. Besides | "org.openembedded.dev" there now is the "org.openembedded.stable" | branch. | | The plumbing work on the development branch (long-term improvements | such as packaged staging, creating stand-alone SDK toolchains and a | new package manager) colides with the goal of offering a stable base | for OpenEmbedded-derived distributions. Some projects, most notably | the Angstrom distribution, already maintained a stable branch for this | reason. | | The effort of maintaining a stable branch is now centralized back into | the OpenEmbedded project. The main goal of the stable branch is to | provide a branch that progresses in time with a minimum of disruptive | changes, especially to the framework, which include classes, | configuration namespace, package management, and tooling such as the | bitbake tool. Changes to the stable branch are selected and reviewed | according to an agreed upon policy before being committed to the | stable branch. This will require extra effort from the OpenEmbedded | developer community. | | The stable branch is not intended to keep up with the pace of | development on the development branch. Planned is to create new stable | branches every year; the next stable branch is scheduled to branch of | the development tree during 2008.12. Old stable branches will go in | unmaintained mode 3 months after a new stable branch is created; the | current stable will retire 2009.2. | | OpenEmbedded projects and distributions now have the choice of at | least a .dev and .stable branch and the OpenEmbedded developers can | keep on plumbing. | --- The mailinglist: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-stablebranch And viewmtn: http://amethyst.openembedded.net/oe/viewmtn/viewmtn.py/branch/changes/org.openembedded.stable The commit policy (currently under RFC at the above mailinstlist): http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom/Backport_from_dev_to_stable regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFH7h6FMkyGM64RGpERAslYAJ9m9k3kwSiTfbPN8jLFxfIx5HAhugCfZfQx /eUCqwLdgYJv3pQdkYBX/S8= =FVoH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----