[yocto-ab] YP Participant: Silica

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 13:30 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> > On 12/09/2013 09:29 AM, Maupin, Chase wrote:
> >> I too would like to see that they already are participating.  I see that they provide virtualbox images with a poky setup but I didn't see a quick list of their layers that can be used by others.  I would hope as a participant that they would at least make it easy for others to share and use their work as well.
> >
> > We need to define participation:
> >
> > 1) Is it contributing to layers?
> > 2) Or using layers to deliver working Linux systems?
> >
> > From my point of view #2 counts. Part of the participation criteria is
> > that fixes are delivered upstream, so hopefully we some some commits. On
> > the other hand, if we have done or job right, it should be possible to
> > use the output of the Yocto Project as-is, without needing to make any
> > fixes to the core layers.
> 
> Right but in this case it'd be a YP User, not a YP Participant.

We have two classifications. A "YP Participant" is someone who is making
use of the project in some way (thereby 'participating'). Its designed
to be easy to get and I believe if someone is sharing YP built images,
that qualifies. If we have zero evidence of "participation" then the AB
can deny the request however its meant to be easy to get and in this
case there is evidence.

The other classification, "YP Compatible" is much harder to get by
design. Its these requests which need to be more carefully vetted.

Cheers,

Richard