On 2/20/18 10:00 AM, Tim Orling wrote:
> The recent improvements to the Auto Upgrade Helper have made maintenance of
> meta-perl less effort and therefore you have seen an uptick in my updates
> to recipes. I also plan to mass-add ptest to all perl module recipes
> "sometime soon", which will further simplify my upgrade workflow and add to
> the confidence of said recipes. My upgrade workflow touches all recipes in
> oe-core, meta-oe and meta-perl that fit a lib*perl regex.
> 
> I will note, however, that we are revisiting meta-cpan and that may
> ultimately be the preferred perl layer. If you really heavily on perl
> modules, please comment on whether meta-cpan would fit your needs.
> 
> Derek and others have been doing a great job keeping meta-python up to
> date. I mostly jump in when there are trickier failures that need more
> concentrated effort. I would like to see increased testing (more packages
> with ptest), but that is trickier with python recipes as there are many
> more approaches to testing than there are in perl. I am happy with the
> current efforts to keep recipes up to date as a priority. I would like to
> see complete coverage of python3 for all recipes that are capable in
> meta-python.
> 
> I am open to discussion about what direction we go. Individual layers that
> are curated and built together by YP auto builders sounds like an
> intriguing path. If this was coupled with increased ptest or testimage
> usage, our confidence in layer quality would go up dramatically.
> 

I would like to understand whats stopping YP autobuilders to build
layers under meta-openembedded repo and contribute changes as needed.
All changes with test improvements etc. above are a good change and
should be adopted across layers. However splitting layers is least of
the problem as of now.

> Cheers,
> 
> --Tim
> 

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