-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30-07-10 09:21, Esben Haabendal wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 07/29/2010 05:45 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 29-07-10 10:50, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Given the discussions on quality that sometimes pop up (and also >>>> triggered >>>> by Robert's message), I decided to kick off a bitbake -k world. >>> >>> Could you first explain to me why 'bitbake world' is a good way to >>> measure quality? >>> >>> I would think that building something like console-image and looking at >>> the following would be a much better metric: >>> >>> * does it build? >>> * are all the rootfs types working? >>> * does the image do what it is supposed to do? >>> * Are all the licenses of the output packages correct? >>> * Do the output packages have any spurious deps? >>> * Is the content of the output packages correct? >>> * Are there any known CVEs in the resulting packages? >>> * Did packaged-staging do its job? >>> * What kind of QA errors and warnings were raised? >>> * Did all recipes pass recipe_sanity? >>> * Did all recipes conform to oe-stylize.py? >>> >>> etc >>> >>> I would actually advocate removing the 'world' feature from bitbake/OE >>> to stop people from wasting time on looking at bitbake world and have >>> them fix actual problems. >> >> bitbake world seems to be the source of pointless listserv discussions. Does >> it serve any purpose? > > Pointless or not really depends on how you look at quality. > > If you look at it as you, Koen and other OE long-timers, yes, it looks > rather pointless to have bitbake world. > But for those of us who have a different view on what quality is, then > bitbake world serves a purpose.
As Thomas points out, as soon as you start blacklisting things (which actually increases quality), bitbake world doesn't work anymore. That alone should be enough to kill it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMUouuMkyGM64RGpERAl42AKCE62tZc4ZGAH5WiLMPFNwn/YY0cACfTmMz /YBK4XU/u1PuqmzoyXbF1f8= =TNJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
