[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: BSPs, YP Compatible, and the new website

[Osier-mixon, Jeffrey]

You and Tracey are totally right, I am wrong - we do enable YP Compatible for software layers, BSP or otherwise. It has just been many years since anyone applied for the status for anything other than BSPs! 1.8 was quite a while ago and my memory is faulty.

I don't believe RP's script can validate arbitrary software layers, so currently any submission for a feature or distro layer would have to be vetted by hand. We also have not yet built a facility in the website to feature these layers, although we should and will eventually. I completely agree that we need a way to recognize member ownership of these layers as a contribution.

Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
Open Source Community Manager

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Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: BSPs, YP Compatible, and the new website




On 11/08/2017 04:56 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
We'll have to hear from RP, but I believe the script currently only checks BSP layers, and BSPs are the only layers that currently carry the YP Compatible branding designation.

To clarify, we do not intend for the website to be a complete list of every layer that is supported in the project, nor a list of everything or even every BSP that is technically compatible with the project. This is a list of member BSPs that have YP Compatible status.

Sorry, I was confused. The current website has meta-qt5 listed as YP compatible from 1.5 to 1.8
https://www.yoctoproject.org/product/meta-qt5

https://www.yoctoproject.org/product/genivi-baseline is mete-ivi

so I thought we may want to expand such a list.

- armin



We focused on BSPs for the branding program in order to show hardware support. With the new website, we are working on ways to show support for other features. But keep in mind that this is a site where people come to learn about the project when they have never encountered it before. A long list of things like meta-virt won't mean anything to them, but "this project works with the board on my desk" is meaningful.

It might be good to find a way to show which YP members are official maintainers of specific layers, perhaps in the layer index. Just not today :)

Rocko added to registration, thanks

Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
Open Source Community Manager

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Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: BSPs, YP Compatible, and the new website




On 11/08/2017 02:20 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
The new Yocto Project website will contain a list of BSPs as a subset of the OE layer index. This is a great opportunity for all members to get their BSPs approved as YP Compatible, which is the filter we plan to use to display BSPs. All member BSPs are eligible to apply for this status, but not all do, so if you have a public BSP, please make sure it passes the new yocto-check-layer script and then file a request for YP Compatible status.

Many Members are Owners of standard layers like meta-selinux, meta-virt, meta-dpdk , etc. Is there any reason not to get those "Qualified" too? I think it helps show that Members are serious about the layers they create and maintain.

Also, please add  Rocko "2.4" to the https://www.yoctoproject.org/webform/yocto-project-compatible-registration. We will most likely need to update it to add a check box for the script being run and get a Version 2 added.

just some ideas.

Kind regards and Mahalo,
- armin



Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
Open Source Community Manager






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