[poky] Commit and Patch message guidelines - fifth draft

[Darren Hart]

On 05/12/2011 07:03 PM, William Mills wrote:
> 
> On 05/12/2011 07:49 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> There is: http://www.yoctoproject.org/community/mailing-lists
>>
>> Which needs to be updated to better reflect the oe-core aspect I think.
> 
> This might be at least one source of the cross posting as people are not 
> sure poky vs oe-core.
> 
>>> It seems to me there is a whole bunch of discussion happening on the
>>> poky list about making changes that that would effect everyone using
>>> openembedded-core.  Do we have two lists for discussion of stuff that
>>> effect the oe-core?
>>
>> No. As I understand it, things that go into poky.git/meta and things
>> that go into oe-core should be sent to the openembedded-core list. Patch
>> series for poky.git should be isolated in such a way so that they do not
>> include changes to meta (oe-core) and other areas at the same time.
>  >
>  > Does anyone have a different view?
>  >
> 
> This seems logical to me. Thanks.  I also think discussion of a 
> potential patch should be done on the list that the patch would go to yes?
> 
> Maybe we could drive that definition to ground and get the mailing list 
> page updated.
> 
> ---
> 
> So above, perhaps my "whole bunch" was overstated.  Let me retract that 
> and say at least some.
> 
> I don't mean to pick on you Darren; 

Oh, I think I asked for this one :-)

> I really am just trying to 
> understand and an example is often helpful.  Earlier you and Richard 
> were discussing directdisc images [1] with a suggestion that it might be 
> ripe for removal.  Should that have been on oe-core?
> 

You are correct. I should have sent that to oe-core as the
implementation in question is in poky.git/meta (ie oe-core). Clearly,
this is easy to miss and will take some time for us to get there.

Thanks for pointing that out!

> [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-May/006106.htm
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel