2010/7/9 Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]>: > Hello. > > I want to gather some feedback what people are feeling about a new stable > branch. It feels like the right time to do it soon. We have so many big > changes > in that are not likely to get into stable/2009 like: > > - New staging > - BBCLASSEXTEND > - Checksums in recipes > - Faster BitBake > - Enhanced java support with openjdk/icedtea > - And many I forgot... > > With the latest fixes for the file:// problem the build feels stable at last > for > me. I have not been involved with the latest stable branch so this is really > only a RFC from my side. Please let me know if you see big issues for such a > move. > > Open questions: > --------------- > - Do we feel comfortable with doing a new branch now?
I'd say we should wailt until bitbake 1.10 is officially out (I assume from your previous "Faster bitbake" that you want to move to 1.10) > - What version of bitbake we would like to have for this? I'd say 1.10 > - What boards/images/distros will be supported in stable/2010? > > I my be biased here regarding my work for BugLabs, but I feel me diverged that > much from stable/2009 that it gets problematic to get changes in and syncing > them with .dev. As well the overall build experience on .dev is pretty good > the > last weeks. The file:// problems aside. > > Another idea we just discussed on IRC was to have a model somehow related to > what debian is using. An ongoing flow of patches from .dev to a testing > branch. > Perhaps automated with buildbot to move into testing when some certain builds > have passed with this commit. And also an _ongoing_ stream well tested patches > from testing into stable which eventually makes a time-based release every X > months form this ond move on. > > That all needs to be filled with more details, but it could be a start. Let me > know what you think. > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
