From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhJya-0001DQ-1c for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:44:19 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhJw2-0005es-Oy for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:41:38 +0100 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 ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:41:38 +0100 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:41:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:41:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100204 Shredder/3.0.2pre In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: Cleanup / janitors X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:44:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16-02-10 09:39, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > 2010/2/16 Koen Kooi : >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 16-02-10 00:38, Chris Larson wrote: >>> Greetings all, >>> >>> Per discussion in the TSC meeting this month, I'm sending out this email as >>> a probe. Would anyone on the list benefit from a "janitors" type project, >>> to outline and document specific cleanup tasks and how they should be done? >>> There are many tasks that need doing which involve editing of large amounts >>> of files in relatively simple ways, and I suspect, but am not yet certain, >>> that there are a group of individuals who wish to contribute to the project, >>> but are new enough that they don't feel confident diving into anything >>> invasive. This sort of a task could be a starting point for that sort of >>> individual. Thoughts? Anyone out there in that camp currently that would >>> benefit from something like this? >> >> The first project that comes to mind is converting simple recipes (e.g. >> not perl) to new style staging. It's a fairly simple job that has a huge >> impact. > > Problem is to do that reliable. > It is easy to remove the do_stage section from a recipe, and it is > easy to verify that it builds, but it is already becoming less trivial > to verify that everything that depends on it builds too, A simpile first step is: 1) build recipe 2) bump PR 3) fix staging 4) build recipe 5) diff the 2 packaged-staging recipes If the result of 4) is a superset of 1) then you most likely did the right thing. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFLemg9MkyGM64RGpERAsJhAKCVNBO2i/El72HF3YNgz9qdm8QenQCfbwg9 g2/Zq8mnEUP7Z5OqNdYX7xA= =pT6Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----