On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Paul Barker <pbar...@toganlabs.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've now got a bit of a vested interest in the next meta-raspberrypi > stable branch as I'm planning to use it as a demo platform for our new > Oryx distro. > > In the past, the stable branch hasn't been created for a while after > the corresponding oe-core release. The changes made to the stable > branch after this haven't always been as conservative as I'd have > liked as well but that's just one opinion. > > I'd like to propose the following for the pyro branch: > > * We should create the pyro branch within a week or two of the oe-core > pyro release. > > * After the pyro branch is created, changes on the pyro branch should > roughly follow the oe-core stable branch policy > (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance#Policies). > I don't think we need to be incredibly strict but I do think we should > avoid making changes which may affect the behaviour of existing > recipes/bbappends. I would like us to keep doing stable-branch kernel > updates and adding new MACHINE definitions where possible without > affecting existing MACHINEs. > > This would make the pyro branch perfect for my use case. But obviously > I'm not the meta-raspberrypi maintainer and I'm not the only person > with a use case. So I'd like to know what others think of this, is > this a good plan for meta-raspberrypi stable branches or should we be > more relaxed? > > (I raised similar questions in response to another thread but I think > that email may have been missed by a few people so I'm starting a new > thread here in expectation that the oe-core pyro release is imminent) >
What do we get by branching early ? > Thanks, > > -- > Paul Barker > Co-Founder & Principal Engineer > Togán Labs Ltd > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
