[yocto-ab] Heads up: New meta-fsl-arm layer coming soon + potential new member

[Amit Kr. Chaudhary]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 12:55 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Sean Hudson wrote:
>
>> Perhaps Dan's question becomes much more relevant then.  Without 
>> guidelines it is unclear how to get a layer hosted and, more 
>> importantly, what requirements, if any, there are to get one hosted. 
>> Perhaps this is our opportunity to formalize such requirements. 
>> However, I am leery about requiring registrations 
>> (participant/compliant) or formal membership, but would welcome 
>> discussion on such requirements.
>
> I don't think it is in the best interest of the Yocto Project to have 
> such a requirement.
>
> If we deem the layer is useful and good for us, and if there's a 
> dedicated maintainer of it etc then I don't think we need to require 
> membership of any level (participant/compliant). On the contrary I 
> think the companies and persons donating this to us rather help us 
> boost the Yocto Project without themselves being able to have their 
> word in the decision making and steering of the ship. Therefore I 
> don't think meta-zynq is any troublesome either.
Yes, I have similar view.
>
> I personally doubt hosting of this layer is a significant factor when 
> it comes to Freescale joining the AB or not.
>
--amit