[yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, June 7, 2016 8:00 AM US Pacific Time

[Anders Darander]

* akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> [160803 17:18]:

> On 8/3/16 6:19 AM, Philip Balister wrote:

> > On 08/02/2016 11:23 AM, Jolley, Stephen K wrote:
> >> Attendees: Saul, David Wolfe, Joshua, Belen, Ross, Mark, Bill

> > ....

> >>         Poky - LTS/LTM Branch
> >>         - Community Driven
> >>         - 2 Years
> >>         - Companies continue to push on older branches that they are
> >> interested in.
> >>         - Most patches would be in Oe-Core meta-data
> > This kind of jumped out at me. Can anyone explain why the Yocto Project
> > needs an LTS version of the reference distribution?

> It not so much having an LTS Poky as much as having LTS branches for OE
> core and bitbake. This means Poky would not have to be kept updated nor
> would the Yocto Project need to build or QA the LTS branches.

I'm pretty sure that this is the point Philip was after, that it really
doesn't make sense for Poky.

LTS branches in oe-core and bitbake, OTOH, makes sense, and would be
appreciated by quite some. 

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB