Hi Richard, Sorry for my long silence here in the list ( was away due to a personal loss).
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 04:32:36PM +0200, prvs=68935beb6=richard.leit...@skidata.com wrote: > On 06/07/2018 03:56 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Richard Leitner > > <richard.leit...@skidata.com> wrote: > > .... > >> As I'm using this layer now for quite a few years I'll be glad to help you > >> with > >> the maintainership of meta-java. Nonetheless I have to admit that I have no > >> experience in maintaining an openembedded layer ;-) > >> Therefore if you're still interested I'd have some questions regarding the > >> "strategic" targets, workflows and stuff like that... > > > > Awesome, new energy! Great ! > > Sure, go ahead and ask :-D > > > > Thanks :-) > > So here are some question that currently came to my mind: > > * do you use some kind of patch management software (like patchwork)? meta-java doesn't use patchwork till now. > * are there any "quality gate tests" for patches being applied to master or > stable branches? At the moment, we dont have enough tests in meta-java (It will be good to have more selftests). Moving from manual build/testing to a Jenkins based automated one was briefly tested in a personal setup. > * is there something like a build/test robot for patches and/or branches? Not yet. Tested a travis based setup in github. Testing wasn't successful due to the resource restrictions (mainly storage) there. > * should we use the master-next branch for staging new patches? Preferably - yes. > * is there a reason for not having OpenJDK >8 recipes? Nothing that I can remember :) > * if the above is answered with something like "because nobody submitted > them": Should we try to follow the current OpenJDK release model (a feature > release every six month)? +1, That will be nice. > * based on what scheduling are the stable branches created? Yocto Project > release dates I guess? Yes. > * what kind of patches should be applied/backported to the stable branches? Depends. Mostly security based patches and others, based on urgency/demand. > > I think that's all for now (but presumably some more question will follow > during the next weeks) ;-) > > regards;Richard.L Best Regards, Maxin -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
