From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7292276876 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 05:12:20 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,645,1432623600"; d="scan'208";a="622602743" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.143]) ([10.237.68.143]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 05:12:19 -0700 Message-ID: <55C8956D.9080508@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:13:33 +0300 From: Alexander Kanavin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philip Balister , Khem Raj References: <1436426071-3790-1-git-send-email-leimaohui@cn.fujitsu.com> <56502.10.252.20.69.1436441609.squirrel@linux.intel.com> <1436601450.3310.27.camel@linuxfoundation.org> <55BA134F.9010908@linux.intel.com> <55BB5F06.4010901@linux.intel.com> <55C477AE.8030308@balister.org> <55C4A405.6050209@linux.intel.com> <55C637DB.9010106@balister.org> In-Reply-To: <55C637DB.9010106@balister.org> Cc: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: meta-gplv2? [Was Re: parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3] X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:12:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/08/2015 08:09 PM, Philip Balister wrote: >> By 'self-sustaining' I mean 'being able to continuously produce quality >> work'. Looking at layers in meta-openembedded, not all of them are of >> high quality. Meta-gnome in particular is badly out of date, because no >> one wants to maintain it properly. If oe-core starts taking a lot more >> volunteer contributions, and the same thing happens (a volunteer >> contributes a large set of recipes, then disappears), what is supposed >> to happen then? > > You are missing the point. We now use layers to segregate sets of > recipes o stuff that is not interesting to many people and becomes > obsolete may decline without compromising heavily used layers. This is > all part of the evolution of OpenEmbedded over many, many years. > > If people lose interest in meta-gplv2, then so be it. This is perfectly fine with me. However, the subject has been whether the scope of *oe-core/poky* can be expanded without compromising quality. I'm not sure at which point it got confused with general OE, so I can only refer you back to several emails up this thread: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108037.html http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108167.html http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-July/108208.html Alex