On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard, I agree with all you said. > > But I still don't see how replacing meta-oe git repository with 10 > different git repositories helps with anything. > > It won't give you more time, it would only cause more work to already > exhausted and (re)tired meta-oe maintainers. > > It won't make the layers independent. > > It won't improve existing tooling. > > It won't improve automated upgrades or testing. > > Yes meta-oe needs to improve and it would be great to have layers as those > fancy colorful boxes from Yocto documentation, which you can willy-nilly > add to your BBLAYERS without any dependencies. But that's not how it is now > and splitting the repository alone won't help with that. If there are > people willing to make it work better, then they can improve it in existing > git repository and when it works well and there are really independent > layers, then we can re-evaluate splitting the independent ones to separate > repositories for easier consumption. > > Regards, > > And it won't reduce efforts in sending patches / creating releases (and this in times where resources are limited).
Reading all this, the only intention I can see is to kick out what core-boys call bit rotted - regardless if working perfectly fine - and hoping it will die due to extra efforts. Ah and don't forget to create a layer oe-core-trashbin. Andreas -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel