From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sirius.lasnet.de ([78.47.116.19]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXKSG-0004XA-0W for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:45:54 +0200 Received: from p5b034b21.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.3.75.33] helo=excalibur.local) by sirius.lasnet.de with esmtpsa (Cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1OXKNV-0002Jm-Qd by authid with cram_md5 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:41:00 +0200 Received: from stefan by excalibur.local with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OXKNU-0005ug-4q for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:40:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:40:55 +0200 From: Stefan Schmidt To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-ID: <20100709204055.GA12163@excalibur.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-KeyID: 0xDDF51665 X-Website: http://www.datenfreihafen.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 78.47.116.19 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: stefan@datenfreihafen.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: [RFC] New stable branch (and maybe a new process?) 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: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:45:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello. I want to gather some feedback what people are feeling about a new stable branch. It feels like the right time to do it soon. We have so many big changes in that are not likely to get into stable/2009 like: - New staging - BBCLASSEXTEND - Checksums in recipes - Faster BitBake - Enhanced java support with openjdk/icedtea - And many I forgot... With the latest fixes for the file:// problem the build feels stable at last for me. I have not been involved with the latest stable branch so this is really only a RFC from my side. Please let me know if you see big issues for such a move. Open questions: --------------- - Do we feel comfortable with doing a new branch now? - What version of bitbake we would like to have for this? - What boards/images/distros will be supported in stable/2010? I my be biased here regarding my work for BugLabs, but I feel me diverged that much from stable/2009 that it gets problematic to get changes in and syncing them with .dev. As well the overall build experience on .dev is pretty good the last weeks. The file:// problems aside. Another idea we just discussed on IRC was to have a model somehow related to what debian is using. An ongoing flow of patches from .dev to a testing branch. Perhaps automated with buildbot to move into testing when some certain builds have passed with this commit. And also an _ongoing_ stream well tested patches from testing into stable which eventually makes a time-based release every X months form this ond move on. That all needs to be filled with more details, but it could be a start. Let me know what you think. regards Stefan Schmidt