[yocto] meta-oe branch for edison?

[Philip Balister]

On 12/09/2011 11:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 15:46 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 20:01 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Can we create a meta-oe repo in git.yoctoproject.org?
>>>
>>> This might create a little friction with the OE community. What would be
>>> the reason for the repository?
>>>
>>>>  I'd like to also
>>>> create a branh within the repo that tracks a valid version of the repo
>>>> for specific Yocto releases.
>>>>
>>>> (I can add that in my investigation so far -
>>>> f78f3f31c06c669006fcb567c8f503d4dbec68da looks like a good starting
>>>> commit for edison)
>>>
>>> I'd certainly be happy to see such a branch. It might be more
>>> appropriate to call it 2011-1 which corresponds to the OE-Core branch
>>> name that is edison in the poky repo.
>>
>> Well I don't particularly care if we create a repo or not. I just want
>> a place to go for a working meta-oe for all future releases of Yocto.
>> I had to figure this out on my own, but I'm can imagine others will
>> attempt similar things.
> 
> I think it should be fine to add an appropriate branch to the meta-oe
> repository itself.

We should probably have this discussion on the oe list.

Basically, we should have a way to create a "stable" branch for oe-core
and meta-oe. There also needs to be some "policy" in place for commits.
The primary concern is making sure the development branches get all
needed fixes that go into the branches.

Philip