From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SXbTE-00035g-7Z for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:05:04 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4OGsnr4025936; Thu, 24 May 2012 17:54:49 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25801-01; Thu, 24 May 2012 17:54:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4OGsgmT025929 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 24 May 2012 17:54:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1337878481.8248.154.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:54:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <22FC307C-7108-4DDC-9671-23AA109E964B@dominion.thruhere.net> References: <4FBD5E10.3070403@intel.com> <223B4521-59A6-42A5-9F1F-71B67C12B8E9@dominion.thruhere.net> <4FBE57CA.6010307@intel.com> <22FC307C-7108-4DDC-9671-23AA109E964B@dominion.thruhere.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Cc: Scott Garman Subject: Re: [yocto] RFC: Merging commits from into the main denzil branch X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:05:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 18:04 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > Op 24 mei 2012, om 17:46 heeft Scott Garman het volgende geschreven: > > > On 05/24/2012 04:26 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > >> Op 24 mei 2012, om 00:00 heeft Scott Garman het volgende geschreven: > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> As most of you know, I've been pulling commits into a pair of > >>> sgarman/denzil-next branches which are intended to eventually > >>> become the next Denzil point-release, 1.2.1. > >>> > >>> oe-core based branch: > >>> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=sgarman/denzil-next > >> > >>> > >> Would it be possible to do that in the main repo? That saves people > >> from needing to add and fetch yet another repo. > > > > I can't start with the main repo, because I don't have commit access to > > it, and until I have done some significant testing with my commits, I > > want to preserve the ability to rebase my branch. > > > > However, now that I have some autobuilder resources to do more extensive > > testing, what I'm proposing is to get my *tested* commits moved from > > sgarman/denzil-next into the denzil branch after review from the > > community and a merge that Richard will do. > > > > That means the denzil branch will lag my sgarman/denzil-next branch by a > > certain amount of time, which I intend to keep down to less than a week. What we could do is give you direct access to the denzil-next branch in the main repository which would be a happy medium between these two states since you could still rebase it. > >>> So now to address issue #2. The goal is to incorporate community > >>> feedback, so I'm looking to get ACKs or NAKs for these commits > >>> before they go into the main denzil branch. > >>> > >>> My proposal is to send denzil pull requests to the appropriate > >>> mailing lists, and Richard can merge them into the main repo denzil > >>> branches once they've received review by the community. > >>> > >>> My goal is to send these pull requests about once per week, once > >>> I've managed to get a green build out of the Yocto autobuilder for > >>> my contrib branch. > >>> > >>> What do folks think about this? Now's your opportunity to offer > >>> feedback and influence this process. > >> > >> You're missing a process for people to propose commits for the denzil > >> branch. How about this: > >> > >> If you want to propose a commit from master cherry-pick it into a > >> local denzil branch and then send if for review to the oe-core list > >> with the [for-denzil] subject prefix. Scott will take care of putting > >> it in the pull requests based on the feedback the patch gets. > > > > I can work with that. But keep in mind that if the request is not > associated with a current bug marked for 1.2.1 in the Yocto bugzilla, > I will need to see strong community support for including it (aka, > multiple ACKs). This is needed to avoid scope creep in the > point-release. > > I think you're confusing oe-core with yocto I think some process for showing support for changes is good and the Ack's seem as good as any other. Cheers, Richard