[yocto] Announcing poky-extras repository available

[Joshua Lock]

On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 12:29 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/12/16 Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Recently Richard sent around an email proposing that a new repository be
> > created for hosting layers that are not part of the core Yocto Metadata.
> >
> > This new repository "poky-extras" can host different contributed layers and
> > will be open to any one.
> >
> > From Richard's proposed ground rules:
> >
> >> * it has the OE style open contributions model
> >> * consists of a set of layers, each clearly identified at the top level
> >> * each layer has a clearly named maintainer or maintainers
> >> * people respect the layer maintainers
> >> * layers are split into logical "topics" where at all possible
> >
> > The first layer contained in this new repository is the meta-linaro layer,
> > the top level repository will be removed short since it will now be
> > maintained in poky-extras.
> >
> > If you require write access to this repository, please send your request to
> > git-requests at yoctoproject.org
> 
> 
> Saul, all,
> 
> I've peeked at poky-extras. The meta-linaor layer does not have an
> identifiable maintainer (grep -ir maint . in that dir did not result
> in any hits).
> Do we have a policy on when/how to create a layer.
> My intention is to bring over some of my OE recipes (as I would love
> to be able to build my james image under poky too).

I'd suggest you forge ahead with creating a layer, it may be that some
of the recipes get moved into the core layer at some stage but I think
that the best approach is to create a layer which you control so that
you can use Yocto to achieve your goals. :-)

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre