There have been some concerns raised at the TSC recently about how transparent the Yocto Project development process is and how and where it connects to OpenEmbedded. When you're dealing with companies and engineers there does need to be a process with things like schedules and in the interests of transparency, all the gory details are out there. This is why you see some things being targeted for milestones and hence getting more attention than others at certain times. This isn't to say community input is any less valuable, there is just a balancing act I need to do to keep all the various areas on track. We don't always keep the schedules either, I've caused my share of friction by "refusing" to merge systemd on time several times over for example as it simply hasn't been ready.
Talking with the TSC, its felt we need to better communicate some of the issues and what exactly is happening at any given time. I suspect some of the tension could be helped with some kind of regular status email about what is going on and where things are at. This would attempt to explain why patches were slow to merge for example of why certain things appear to being "ignored" (e.g. the systemd version upgrade is simply being postponed until after Ross' series merges which in turn is pending a known bug getting fixed). >From a load perspective, I want to write these summaries like I want a hole in the head, its going to eat more time which I simply don't have. The alternatives like asking someone else to write it would likely end up increasing my workload anyhow though and its certainly true that I have some of the key information which needs to go into this. I already explain this several times over each week in different forums but sadly its not reaching everyone, particularly some of the people it needs to. I am therefore going to attempt to send out such an email. This is a trial for now and probably going to be a lot of work for me so let me/TSC/Jefro/the list know your thoughts on it. I'd love to come up with a way to get other people involved in the process but I'm simply not seeing it at the moment. I may try and cut back in my involvement in some of the other meetings as a consequence though. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto