[poky] Adding extra metadata to Yocto/Poky

[Darren Hart]

On 12/08/2010 04:49 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're in a position where we have people wanting to extend Poky but
> wondering exactly how to add their own layer and make Poky useful for
> their specific use cases.
>
> This is a topic I want to work with the OE community on and have
> discussion about but equally, people are interested at the moment and we
> need something people can experiment with now so we can see what works
> and what doesn't.
>
> With this in mind I'm proposing we create a "poky-extras" repository
> which contains multiple user contributed layers.
>
> My proposed ground rules are:
>
> * it has the OE style open contributions model
> * consists of a set of layers, each clearly identified at the top level
> * each layer has a clearly named maintainer or maintainers
> * people respect the layer maintainers
> * layers are split into logical "topics" where at all possible
>
> Ultimately, the repo structure and some of the details could change but
> I'd like to experiment and see what we can come up with which is
> probably the only way we're going to move forward.
>
> Any comments, objections or better ideas? :)

Sounds like a good approach to me. What would the expectation of 
"lifecycle" be? Will these layers move to the poky git repository after 
some proven time to join things like meta-linaro and meta-demo (which 
should be renamed meta-dlna) or should we move these layers to 
poky-extras too?

-- 
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel