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

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Paul,

On 08/13/2015 04:24 PM, Paul Sherwood wrote:
> 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?

Usually I would advice to send the patches to a Renesas-specific ML,
but I couldn't find it in the OE layers index, so it would be best to
ask the Renesas team.

@Stephen, Takeshi, Nobuhiro: Can you please advice which is the proper
ML for sending meta-renesas patches? Thanks.

>> 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

Have a nice day,
Nikolay