Dear all, For me it is totally unclear about most of the distro's whether they are still used, and if so, who maintains them (and who to contact when there are issues)
As distro's are first class citizens it seems like a good plan to identify in the conf file who is the maintainer (yes, I know we have the MAINTAINERS file, but I am not too sure whether it is up to date and not all distro's are listed there). distros that have no active maintainer should either be pruned or moved to an archived or unmaintained directory or so. For all distro's I tried to identify the maintainer. In that process MAINTAINERS was leading. If there was no entry in MAINTAINERS (bad sign:-( ) I've used git blame to find out who created the recipe/was the major author of it. At the end of this post is the list. Proposal: (0) maintainers listed below but not listed in MAINTAINERS, please claim (or deny) ownership. Ditto if you are maintaining a distro but you are not listed. (1) add an explict MAINTAINER(S) line in each distro conf file (2) owners of a distro that feel that the distro is dead, please remove the distro. (3) either remove orphaned distro's or move them to an unmaintained directory. (4) for distros that are removed (and maybe also for the ones that are moved) add a note stating that they still can be found in git (see openmoko.conf as example) Your feedback is appreciated Frans PS: it is by no means my intention to remove anything that is still in use/maintained, but I feel it would help us if it is clear who maintains what. Also having dead stuff around that is not maintained is probably due to lead to frustration if a naive user comes along and tries to build it anyway. Guess that is better avoided (note also that the code still remains available in git) amsdelta-oe.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Jonathan McDowell in 2006 angstrom-2008.1-legacy.conf angstrom-2008.1.conf Denys Dmytriyenko Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Junqian Gordon Xu 'xjqian' Khem Raj Koen Kooi Marco Cavallini Martin 'JaMa' Jansa Philipp Zabel Richard Purdie Rick Farina Stelios Koroneos Tim Ellis asusoe.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Rod Whitby in 2005 celinux-test.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Marcin Juszkiewicz in 2006 chinook-compat.conf Robert Schuster 'thebohemian' colinuxoe.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Chris Larson in 2005 foonas.conf Tim Ellis ?~Xyvind Repvik gmustix.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Marcin Juszkiewicz in 2006 iphone-compat.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by eremy Laine in 2009 jlime-2010.1.conf Kristoffer Ericson kaeilos-2010.conf kaeilos.conf Marco Cavallini maemo5-compat.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Marcin Juszkiewicz in 2010 mamona.conf Rodrigo 'vivijim' Vivi micro-uclibc.conf micro.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Martin Lund in 2009 minimal-uclibc.conf minimal.conf Michael 'Mickey' Lauer nylon.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Martin Dietze in 2009 openmn.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by nslu2-linux....@bkbits.net (!) in 2005 openmoko.conf retired per today openprotium.conf Andy Wilcox openwrt-sdk.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS oplinux-uclibc.conf oplinux.conf Stelios Koroneos sharprom-compatible.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS probbly also created by nslu2-linux....@bkbits.net, but file has been touched by several people shr.conf Martin 'JaMa' Jansa slugos-native.conf slugos.conf ?~Xyvind Repvik ucslugc.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by John Bowler in 2005, content is mostly from Rod Whitby (2006/2007) wrt54oe.conf Not listed in MAINTAINERS created by Chris Larson in 2005, content is mostly from Marcin Juszkiewicz (2005) Distro's mentioned in MAINTAINERS but with no entry in conf/distro: arago (Denys Dmytriyenko) eRouter (Jamie Lenehan) familiar (Erik Hovland) Sonkei (Rolf 'Laibsch' Leggewie, Matthias 'CoreDump' Hentges) poky (Richard Purdie) openzaurus (Richard Purdie) I know some of these have their own git. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel