[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Pull requests and jenkins

[Trevor Woerner]

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Paul Barker <pbarker at toganlabs.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I know I promised long ago but finally I took a Friday to invest into
>>> github pull requests integrated with a jenkins server.

yay!
+1

(my inbox has been going nuts today!)

>> I'm doing nightly builds of my setup but that's a bit non-standard
>> (custom distro, musl libc, u-boot enabled, etc). For meta-raspberrypi
>> itself I think you've got it right - test against the appropriate
>> branch of poky without changing the default configuration too much.

I have a couple nightly builds too for the things that interest me.

>> For the readme, I think we should split off
>> "docs/optional-build-configuration.md", "docs/board-configuration.md"
>> and maybe "docs/contributing.md" files to shorten the top-level file.
>> Does that sound sensible?
>
> We did touch this subject a little bit in private but in summary this
> is a topic that I really want to address in the near future:
> documentation. We start to have a pretty big readme and on the long
> term that is not feasible.

Maybe (just throwing this out there) the README in the layer could be
very basic (maintainers, layer dependencies, ...) and then point users
to a more elaborate documentation wiki setup on github?

https://github.com/agherzan/meta-raspberrypi/wiki