[meta-freescale] Please review the proposal of FSL Yocto layers reorg

[Bob Cochran]

On 02/28/2013 01:59 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
>> Le Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:02 +0000,
>> McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882 at freescale.com> a écrit :
>>> I think you misinterpreted the intent of my statement, the goal is to
>>> provide the best support we can for the open source versions and get
>>> feedback as well. However, specifically stating what will be done for
>>> each release, branch, layer, etc is not something that is a
>>> deliverable on the open source end and I don't see it happening soon.
>>> That being said, there is no malicious intent and supporting upstream
>>> and making it work as well as possible is the ultimate goal so our SDK
>>> release requires less effort and work.
>>>
>> I may have misinterpreted your statement but it seems you make a
>> difference between the open source version and the SDK release : isn't
>> that roughly the same thing when we talk of meta-fsl-* where the SDK
>> release can be seen as a snapshots of the opensource stable branch at
>> the date of the release ? If not what are the differences ?
>
> They *should* be the same. But for SDK releases sometimes we skip
> entire Yocto releases (e.g. danny). SDK versions *may* contain
> slightly different versions. This comes into play more with oe-core
> where we don't have official control and we need to include a specific
> fix for the SDK. Layers themselves tend to have less reason to deviate
> from the upstream versions since we control both sides so they
> *should* be the same.


Thanks Matthew. It's great that you are explaining things to us, but all 
this information will become stale in a matter of weeks or even days.  I 
believe we need Zhenhua's layers document to describe what we have been 
discussing regarding policies on how the SDK branches will be 
maintained, where to pull the latest stable SDK patches from the various 
servers, and how the same named trees are managed on the different servers.

If nothing can be promised, then at least state it in the document 
rather than gloss over it.

Also, I hope the layers organization document will be posted on an FSL 
site and become maintained documentation or perhaps a Wiki.


>
>> Also, do you plan to sync the public accessible git tree only when you
>> do a release or will they get the patches in "realtime" ?
>
> These should go in real time esp. if we are working on the current
> release (e.g. master branch). Right now we are still using denzil
> until the May release which will be based on what is now master.
>
> -M
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