[yocto] [RFC] Split and revamp distro_tracking_fields.inc

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Jun 6 05:14:59 PDT 2012


Hi,

On 5 June 2012 16:59, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> Document the date when the recipe was upreved.  Then in a separate file,
> document the check dates.  Then the check dates and the uprev dates can be
> compared and it'll be easier to watch to see if things are being neglected
> or let go out of date.
>
> (Note, using git, it should be possible to also discover the data of the
> uprev as well....)

Agreed, documenting the date when git can tell us when the recipe was
last touched does seem a bit wasteful.  The counter-argument is that
purely using the git log will result in false dates from commits like
"all recipes: fix whitespace".

Ross



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