On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:21:07 +0100 "Dominig ar Foll (Intel OTC)"
<[email protected]> said:

> Hello,
> 
> as you know we are aligning as much as we can Tizen packages version 
> with Yocto 1.7 packages version.

nope. i didn't know. when/where was this discussed? anyway...

does this mean we are dropping GBS then as we'll build with OE?

> The goal is to increase portability of Tizen on multiple platforms while 
> reducing the maintenance burden on common packages.
> 
> Once that this full alignment will be done, Tizen Common will represent 
> about 150/200 packages (today its just bellow a 1000) on top of a 
> standard Yocto/Poky reference.
> These specials will mostly be related to :
>    - security and data privacy
>    - advanced communications
>    - Web run time
>    - App development and execution FW.
> 
> The first step is to align the packages version and when possible the 
> patch level.
> 
> In order to achieve that goal Kevin has tracked all the delta and has 
> created a bug for each package that requires changes.
> The default mode has been to up either Yocto or Tizen which ever was behind.
> 
> Please note that while we have a strategic agreement to align on Yocto 
> package, maintainer needs to get and agreement via the Dev mailing list 
> to vary from the targeted version.
> As usual, the requirement to derive will have to be justified.
> When it will make sense we will force Yocto project to re-align on the 
> newly agreed release.
> 
> I rely on the good behaviour of all of you, but in order to stop any non 
> agreed version to enter the system by error, I will also ask to Stéphane 
> (release engineer for Common) to reject any package change which jumps 
> to a non agreed version.
> 
> I remember that on the mailing list "who says nothing agrees", but in 
> order to give time to get feedback, a delay of 1 full worked day for 
> small changes and 3 for larger should be respected.
> Any structural change (e.g. systemd or glib) should give a full week for 
> feedback.
> 
> Kevin maintains a shared document which allow to follow progress on that 
> initiative, please feel free to get a look. For those how cannot access 
> shared drive, I have added a printout of today status to this mail.
> 
> Enjoy your day.
> 
> -- 
> Dominig ar Foll
> Senior Software Architect
> Open Source Technology Centre
> Intel SSG
> 


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