[Yocto-infrastructure] [yocto] Bugzilla Re-organization

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-05-31 2:27 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
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> On 05/25/2012 03:38 PM, Michael Halstead wrote:
>> The first draft of the reorganized bugzilla is available for feedback
>> now at https://bugzilla.yoctodev.org/. Outgoing e-mail is currently
>> disabled on this preview copy. Please feel free to take a look and see
>> if you spot any errors. Additional refinement of  product or component
>> descriptions will be helpful as well.
>>
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> It seems to me one should be able to find the linux-yocto kernel itself
> under the Yocto Project Components from the basic search page. Currently
> there is Kernel Tooling and BSPs, but there are times when the bug is
> not BSP specific and is in the kernel itself, not the tooling. For this,
> a hierarchy like the following might be preferable:
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> Yocto Project Components
>    BSPs
>      bsps
>    Kernel
>      linux-yocto
>      configuration
>      kernel-tooling

+1. I completely agree with this.

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> I am still not sure how best to deal with BSPs here and BSPs in Build
> System&  Metadata. I think We should pick one or the other as the
> distinction between the two is non-obvious (actually I have no idea what
> it would be).

Agreed .. that this is hard. If we used 'configuration' for the kernel
category, could the build system + meta data fall into that as well
under BSPs ?

i.e.

    BSPs
      bsps - runtime
      bsps - configuration

?

Bruce

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> Tom, Bruce: opinions on the above?
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> "Build System&  Metadata" and "Yocto Metadata Layers" use different
> naming schemes for the components in the various layers products. Some
> use meta- others do not.
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