Hi Paul, On 01/10/14 09:01, Paul Eggleton wrote: > This is all very interesting with people piping up that their layers > are maintained, but I'm not sure it helps solve the overall problem.
> Also, if it does appear that a layer has gone "unmaintained" by > popular consensus, what should actually be done about it? I was hoping I could put together a list of the layers which are no longer maintained to see if we could find people who might be interested in stepping up and taking on their maintenance. Or at the very least, clarifying a given layers' maintenance status. At the last OE TSC meeting the issue of unmaintained layers was brought up, I asked several times if people could specify to which layers they were referring, but nobody replied. So people are concerned about layers that have no maintainer, but nobody can say which ones (?). In my opinion I thought it would be easier to solve this problem if we could at least start by defining it. As to what can be done about it: if a layer is not maintained, and nobody cares for the layer, we should drop it from the list or at least mark it as such ("buyer beware"). If a layer is not maintained, and people do care, then we'll need to try to find someone to take responsibility for it (we should, at the very least, make the attempt). Also I think we should identify layers that people do care about, whose maintenance is questionable, which are not hosted in a way where the community can apply necessary patches to easily. Best regards, Trevor _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core