[yocto-ab] [Fwd: Removing builds of meta-fsl-* from the autobuilder]

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 08:49 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 08:12 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Richard Purdie
> > > <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > For people's reference. I don't like having to do this, equally
> > > > I
> > > > don't
> > > > think we have much choice (and sorry Otavio, I know you have an
> > > > interest in that too).
> > > 
> > > I did not know the autobuilder were a Gold exclusivity. We had
> > > meta-fsl-arm under AB before NXP join as it was under O.S.
> > > Systems
> > > registration and this sudden change is not good.
> > 
> > It had actually been done before O.S. Systems joined and had been
> > there
> > to try and encourage Freescale to join the project. At gold that
> > seemed
> > reasonable, at silver, I don't think its appropriate any more :(.
> > 
> > I did mention this when I heard NXP were changing level but it
> > doesn't
> > seem to matter to them as far as I can tell.
> 
> Those rules ought to be written somewhere and not decided on the fly.

Whenever we're discussed the membership criteria, the autobuilder has
always been a gold level item. We've been consistent about that. We
have taken a "loss leader" type approach with some people as I
mentioned but this certainly hasn't been decided "on the fly" at all. 

The reason why its gold level is due to the amount of various people's
time it takes up as well as the physical resources it needs, its simply
not viable otherwise.

Cheers,

Richard