Re: [RFC PATCH] base.bbclass: Deprecate the PRINC logic

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 16:37 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:51:36AM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > Background:
> > 
> > At the recent TSC meeting we were discussing ways of removing the PRINC
> > in favor of the PR server, which should now be standard.  The first step
> > in this process is coming up with a simple patch that declared PRINC as
> > deprecated.  If this type of patch is successful, the block of code could
> > be replaced with a bb.error eventually.
> > 
> > It is not expected that this patch will go in by itself, but instead
> > should be coordinated with changes to the recipes in common layers such
> > as openembedded-core, meta-openembedded/meta-* and other community layers.
> 
> This doesn't say what's the process of getting all PR increments
> applied.
> 
> Should we send list of recipes and required PR increments per layer (and
> someone will sum these increments and create actual PR bump from it). Or
> will we take turns and send actual PR bump patches per layer and someone 
> will define order of layers to go in (so that we prevent many conflicts 
> while merging)?

This is something we need to figure out. The realistic process is
probably do this layer by layer. If we can batch some up together that
would obviously be better...

Cheers,

Richard