[yocto] How to submit patches upstream for repos at git.yoctoproject.org (eg meta-renesas)

[Paul Sherwood]

Hi Nikolay!
On 2015-08-13 13:32, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> On 08/13/2015 02:21 PM, Paul Sherwood wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am not affiliated to any Yocto Project member organisation, but am
>> assisting with integration at the Automotive Grade Linux project, 
>> which
>> is re-using some work from upstreams at git.yoctoproject.org
>>
>> Recently members of the AGL community have started contributing 
>> patches
>> for meta-renesas at our mirror [1]. We would like to offer this and
>> future work to upstream, and I am hoping to understand so that I can
>> help guide AGL's activities so that we are properly aligned. Please 
>> can
>> someone guide us on the accepted way to offer these and subsequent 
>> patches?
>>
>> br
>> Paul
>>
>> [1] https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/#/c/4047/
>
> Haven't seen you for a quite a while after Karlsruhe, hope you're 
> doing
> fine.

Small world! I am  very well thank you - it's great to re-connect with 
old friends here :-)

> Regarding the upstreaming guidelines, the usual steps apply - ask
> contributors to push patches as close to the upstream project as
> possible, and just then go downstream, like this (in order of
> preference):
>
> 1. Upstream components
> 2. Yocto meta layer (which you are reusing)
> 3. AGL repos

Understood, thank you. So in this case, for patches to meta-renesas, 
should we email them to this list, or another list, or send directly to 
the maintainer, or is there another mechanism established?

> Also, it would be great if your AGL maintainers can enforce 
> appropriate
> patch tracking by Upstream-status tag + description, as it will help
> everyone.

Yes, I completely agree.

br
Paul

> Kind regards,
> Nikolay