Re: Yocto Project and OE - Where now?

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

On 20/01/2011 10:20, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>
> And as said before, as a package maintainer I try to follow upstream
> and support what upstream supports.
> I do not want to take over the role of upstream wrt the package maintenance.
> As a package maintainer I feel it as my task to make sure the version
> from upstream builds in the OE environment, and ideally patches are
> only there to deal with cross build issues, although every once in a
> while a local bugfix is added.
> That is how I see the role of a package maintainer, but others might
> see things differently.
> (btw for toolchain related things I can imagine we want to retain
> older versions for a longer time, especially when there are functional
> changes (I'm especially thinking about autohell))
> And apologies if I sketch the things black and white, but at least
> that makes things clear.
> But also when it becomes to package maintainers tasks there is a gray area.
>
But this is part of the issue, this sort of working is fine for packages
you maintain, but you try and force your opinions on which packages are
relevant to other package maintainers. Go forth and do what you want
with your own little area but at least give some consideration that I
might actually be maintaining the recipes you class as junk.

Graeme