On Fri 2024-01-26 @ 01:33:15 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 17:58 -0500, Philip Balister wrote: > > On 1/25/24 11:58, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > > On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 03:16:04 PM, Tim Orling wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhac...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Artem, > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 02:01:08 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Yocto community, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > some parts of Yocto software (MIC?) use the 'bmap-tools' project > > > > > > > to > > > > > speed up > > > > > > > image flashing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am the original author of the software, and I created it many > > > > > > > years > > > > > ago to > > > > > > > speed up Tizen image flashing, and it helped a lot back at the > > > > > > > time. > > > > > It was also > > > > > > > my first python project, so it was a lot of fun learning python > > > > > > > while > > > > > also > > > > > > > creating something useful. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for your contribution, this tool has been quite useful > > > > > > for me > > > > > over > > > > > > the years. > > > > > > > > > > > > > But after that, I stopped working on it and it was mostly Yocto > > > > > > > folks > > > > > who > > > > > > > contributed changes here and there. I never had time and enough > > > > > motivation to > > > > > > > maintain the project further, but other folks helped. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Simon McVitte was active maintainer, but he said he does not have > > > > > > > time > > > > > for it > > > > > > > now as well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The project is in "github.com/intel" space, and Intel is going to > > > > > archive the > > > > > > > git repository soon. This basically means the repository becomes > > > > > read-only soon. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for this update and letting us know ahead of time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Would Yocto community have enthusiasts to fork it and maintain the > > > > > fork? > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I'll volunteer to maintain it going forward. My > > > > > > non-stackoverflow > > > > > python > > > > > > knowledge is minimal, but I recently dug deeply into bmaptools to > > > > > > solve > > > > > an > > > > > > issue I had noticed. So I'm confident enough to take it over if > > > > > > nobody > > > > > else is > > > > > > interested. > > > > > > > > > > Ya, it's an awesome tool and a huge time saver for us, so can also > > > > > help maintain it > > > > > > > > > > > > > We can probably move it under the https://github.com/yoctoproject > > > > umbrella? > > > > I can also help maintain this tremendous time saver. > > > > > > https://github.com/yoctoproject and the github workflow is fine with me as > > > long as I can commit to it from my @gmail identity. > > > > > > @tim do you want to import the current repository from intel? Then we can > > > update the recipe in oe-core and go from there. > > > > > > > Michael, if you need any support from the Yocto Project advisory board > > to move bmaptool to the yoctoproject github, I can help with that. > > This falls to the YP TSC, not the board. > > I have no problem with the project hosting that git repo and > maintaining it. I do worry quite a bit about moving it to github. Would > moiving it to git.yoctoproject.org be ok? > > The reason I say this is that I already get a lot of comments/randon > questions against commits in github repos. I feel quite sad that people > are effectively talking into a void. If we start supporting different > workflows for different repos under yoctoproject, we're going to really > confuse people. > > You might argue that we should host issues for bmap-tools. The > challenge is that we have bugzilla, we have a triage team and we have a > load of processes. Telling those people to just cover both would likely > result in a flat refusal.
git.yoctoproject.org and mailing lists are my preferred workflow, especially now that the oe/yp lists are in lore. But if others wanted it on github I wasn't feeling strongly about it.
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