From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PmX7v-0006n8-Hn for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:51:59 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1PmX6v-00053C-1N from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:50:57 -0800 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:50:56 -0800 Received: from [172.30.80.130] ([172.30.80.130]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:50:55 -0700 Message-ID: <4D504D1D.80206@mentor.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:50:53 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <20110126102308.GA29416@excalibur.local> <4D3FFB03.9010206@xora.org.uk> <4D4035D2.9090203@mentor.com> <20110207160841.GB29011@excalibur.local> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2011 19:50:55.0910 (UTC) FILETIME=[55881460:01CBC700] Subject: Re: OE 2011.03 release vs. oe-core migration X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:51:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/07/2011 12:36 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Stefan Schmidt > wrote: >> Hello. >> >> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 07:55, Tom Rini wrote: >>> On 01/26/2011 03:44 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote: >>>> On 26/01/2011 10:23, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >>>>> >>>>> During last OEDEM we set out a timeline for quarterly releases. The first one >>>>> hit on time in december 2010 (Thanks Khem). >>>>> >>>>> The next one would be scheduled for 2011-03. As our plans towards oe-core are >>>>> getting into shape I wonder if and how these both are going to conflict. >>>>> >>>>> Will we go ahead and make the 2011-03 release, maybe the last one before moving >>>>> over to oe-core? Personally I don't think these two block each other. Syncing >>>>> would be needed, but people will keep working on the OE repo for a bit longer >>>>> anyway I would think. >>>>> >>>>> If we are going to scratch the release what would be the next target for it? >>>>> Yocto 1.0 is planned for April 2011. Somehow I doubt we will have oe-core ready >>>>> for this in time, including yocto movs to it and we base the rest of OE on top >>>>> of it. Am I wrong here and that is the actual plan? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> My opinion is 2010-03 should be the last release on the old source tree. >>>> Releases after this should be on the new oe-core layer system. I don't >>>> think we should scrap the release as its going to take some time to kick >>>> oe-core into shape and finish the poky merge. Then there is work on >>>> meta-openembedded and meta-distro to do on top of that. >>> >>> I think this depends a little on who is going to run the release >>> again. We probably won't have a perfect release, stop committing, >>> switch. If we're looking for volunteers again to run the next >>> release, assuming folks will be busy with the migration work too, >>> I'd throw my hat in the ring (and defer to Khem if he wants to do it >>> again, along with all of the fun we'll have in oe-core :)) >> >> I would welcome if we could make the release manager role rotating. So if Tom >> would be able to pick this up it would be great if Khem can feed him some of his >> experience with the last release. Be it only theoretical with some hints or >> practically with helping to review and apply patches towards. Does this sound >> good to both of you? > > by all means. I would do it if no one else is doing. > >> >> I will do some more testing over the next days/weeks and also trying to help >> with some patches if needed. > > We need more people to sign up for testing the release Specifically run-testing. I can queue up a pretty good size matrix of build tests (and I'm adding Ubuntu 10.04 for a recent host distribution to the matrix) but run testing is much more limited. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation