[meta-freescale] [RFC PATCH] fsl-commity-bsp: Add meta-qt5

[Daiane.Angolini at freescale.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-freescale-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-freescale-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 5:37 PM
> To: Eric Nelson
> Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] [RFC PATCH] fsl-commity-bsp: Add meta-qt5
> 
> Hello Eric,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Eric Nelson
> <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> > Most of the energy in Qt for Freescale processors is in the area of
> > Qt5, not Qt4.
> >
> > Since the meta-qt5 layer is tiny (currently < 2M), there's little
> > downside to including it to make it easier to include.
> >
> > Change-Id: Ifa2850f54728626bbd51ae7924a8bc082ca6f359
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com>
> 
> I am not sure we ought to include it or not. I see valid points for both
> and I will focus my answer in the cons:
> 
>  * Documentation: our Release Notes, User Guide and FAQ are still
> uncomplete. Add new stuff will only make it worse as those will also need
> to be documented.
> 
>  * Tests: We see limited tests using the images we have and people does not
> provide much feedback when we open the test form. More things will only
> complicate it more.

Until here I understand. And I agree.

> 
>  * Size: more metadata means more updates and maintenance. We need more
> people helping the metadata maintenance before extend it.

We already have almost 100% of the boards with maintainers. What do you mean, when you
say we need more maintenance before extend the metadata?

I still don´t have a clear idea if I like or dislike the idea of downloading more meta layers by default.

I´m still deciding ;)

Daiane

> 
> I cannot a lot more time in FSL Community BSP that I do. I do it in my free
> time and before extending it we need more people committed to the
> maintenance work.
> 
> Those are my remarks about this, and meta-browser, addition.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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