Re: [yocto] layers.openembedded.org upgraded

[Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod@windriver.com>]

On 09/27/2018 05:28 PM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:43 PM Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, >>
>> I'm very happy to announce that we've finally been able to upgrade the layer
>> index at http://layers.openembedded.org to the latest revision on master,
>> incorporating quite a bit of work that's been going on for the past few
>> months. Improvements now visible:

Nice new features, thanks!

The "Branch:" and "Filter layers" selection menus don't work
for me when using Firefox 62.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu-18.04.

Google Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
works fine.

../Randy


>>
>> * Patch tracking - each recipe detail page now lists any patches being applied
>> by the recipe along with upstream status for each - see attached screenshot.
>> You can click through to view/download the actual patch, and any URLs in the
>> supplemental status text are also made into clickable links.
>>
>> * Source tracking - remote entries in SRC_URI are now listed on the recipe
>> detail page and made into clickable links where possible - see attached
>> screenshot
>>
>> * Link to inc files - there is now a link in the recipe detail page to any inc
>> files that a recipe includes as long as they are in the same directory, as a
>> shortcut to see the rest of the definitions for the recipe.
>>
>> * Recipe list CSV export - there is now an "Export CSV" button at the top of
>> the recipe list on the layer detail page. This currently includes the recipe
>> name and version - we could look at extending this, but note that the REST API
>> provides access to all of the information programmatically and may be better
>> suited for many applications that need this data.
>>
>> * Site-wide notice support - admins can now add notifications to appear at the
>> top of the page across the entire site. This is useful in the case where there
>> is some problem with the update process or maintenance is going on as happens
>> from time to time.
>>
>> * Bootstrap 3 - the UI has been updated to use Bootstrap 3 from version 2 that
>> we were using previously. This has made a fairly minor difference to the UI
>> (padding/spacing/fonts have changed a little) but has allowed us to tidy up a
>> few things in the code.
>>
>> * The "Base" layer type is no longer selectable for layer submissions. I
>> noticed people sometimes selected this erroneously; it's only applicable for
>> openembedded-core and meta-oe basically so that they show up at the top of the
>> layer list. Only admins can now select this type for a layer.
>>
>> * Numerous other bugfixes, robustness improvements and code cleanups.
>>
>> Thanks very much to everyone who has contributed to the layer index code up to
>> now (and to BitBake / tinfoil, which we rely upon to extract the information
>> from the metadata), but I'd like to give particular thanks to Michael
>> Halstead, Yi Zhao, Konrad Scherer, Robert Yang and Aníbal Limón for making
>> this upgrade possible.
> 
> Paul, and everyone above, many thanks for your contributions to the
> Layer Index which is definitely a great tool for our community! It
> encourages and simplifies reuse and sharing of all recipes! The update
> looks really good, and as Andreas says, the top #3 features will make
> a big difference.
> 
>>
>>
>> Also integrated were the Recipe Reporting System (RRS) which powers
>> http://recipes.yoctoproject.org and other distro comparison support, but these
>> will take a bit more time to properly enable so I'll send out a separate email
>> with further details when they are ready.
>>
>> As always, please let me know if you have any comments or notice any issues.
>> (I've already seen a few minor problems in the update logs so I'll be looking
>> into those.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>> --
>> Paul Eggleton
>> Intel Open Source Technology Centre--
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