On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:43 PM Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@intel.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm very happy to announce that we've finally been able to upgrade the layer > index at http://layers.openembedded.org to the latest revision on master, > incorporating quite a bit of work that's been going on for the past few > months. Improvements now visible: > > * Patch tracking - each recipe detail page now lists any patches being applied > by the recipe along with upstream status for each - see attached screenshot. > You can click through to view/download the actual patch, and any URLs in the > supplemental status text are also made into clickable links. > > * Source tracking - remote entries in SRC_URI are now listed on the recipe > detail page and made into clickable links where possible - see attached > screenshot > > * Link to inc files - there is now a link in the recipe detail page to any inc > files that a recipe includes as long as they are in the same directory, as a > shortcut to see the rest of the definitions for the recipe. > > * Recipe list CSV export - there is now an "Export CSV" button at the top of > the recipe list on the layer detail page. This currently includes the recipe > name and version - we could look at extending this, but note that the REST API > provides access to all of the information programmatically and may be better > suited for many applications that need this data. > > * Site-wide notice support - admins can now add notifications to appear at the > top of the page across the entire site. This is useful in the case where there > is some problem with the update process or maintenance is going on as happens > from time to time. > > * Bootstrap 3 - the UI has been updated to use Bootstrap 3 from version 2 that > we were using previously. This has made a fairly minor difference to the UI > (padding/spacing/fonts have changed a little) but has allowed us to tidy up a > few things in the code. > > * The "Base" layer type is no longer selectable for layer submissions. I > noticed people sometimes selected this erroneously; it's only applicable for > openembedded-core and meta-oe basically so that they show up at the top of the > layer list. Only admins can now select this type for a layer. > > * Numerous other bugfixes, robustness improvements and code cleanups. > > Thanks very much to everyone who has contributed to the layer index code up to > now (and to BitBake / tinfoil, which we rely upon to extract the information > from the metadata), but I'd like to give particular thanks to Michael > Halstead, Yi Zhao, Konrad Scherer, Robert Yang and Aníbal Limón for making > this upgrade possible.
Paul, and everyone above, many thanks for your contributions to the Layer Index which is definitely a great tool for our community! It encourages and simplifies reuse and sharing of all recipes! The update looks really good, and as Andreas says, the top #3 features will make a big difference. > > > Also integrated were the Recipe Reporting System (RRS) which powers > http://recipes.yoctoproject.org and other distro comparison support, but these > will take a bit more time to properly enable so I'll send out a separate email > with further details when they are ready. > > As always, please let me know if you have any comments or notice any issues. > (I've already seen a few minor problems in the update logs so I'll be looking > into those.) > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre-- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
