On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:39 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > > 2010/2/16 Koen Kooi <[email protected]>: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 16-02-10 00:38, Chris Larson wrote: > > >> Greetings all, > > >> > > >> Per discussion in the TSC meeting this month, I'm sending out this > email as > > >> a probe. Would anyone on the list benefit from a "janitors" type > project, > > >> to outline and document specific cleanup tasks and how they should be > done? > > >> There are many tasks that need doing which involve editing of large > amounts > > >> of files in relatively simple ways, and I suspect, but am not yet > certain, > > >> that there are a group of individuals who wish to contribute to the > project, > > >> but are new enough that they don't feel confident diving into anything > > >> invasive. This sort of a task could be a starting point for that sort > of > > >> individual. Thoughts? Anyone out there in that camp currently that > would > > >> benefit from something like this? > > > > > > The first project that comes to mind is converting simple recipes (e.g. > > > not perl) to new style staging. It's a fairly simple job that has a > huge > > > impact. > > > > Problem is to do that reliable. > > Isn't that a document it right, for Janitors problem? ie: > 1. Build recipe foo, with packaged-staging, your resuling pstage file > is ..../foo_VERSION...ipk. Copy this somewhere safe. > 2. Modify recipe foo to use new style > 3. -c clean foo, build again. > 4. Examine contents of old and new pstaging file. If the contents are > the same (and say, diff rather than just checking names, so that any > munging is caught), good to go! If not ... > > The idea behind janitors is that there's tasks that can be explained and > people can pick up and do, but there's some manual intervention and > checking. So, if someone fleshed out the above a little more, that > should be enough for a legacy staging task. Exactly, yes. The expectation is these are things that may require a certain amount of manual work. If they didn't, we could write a sed script and call it done. The thread seems to have gotten quickly sidetracked into the particular details of this one task. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
