Re: Any convention on putting source codes into openbmc/openbmc repository

[Thang Nguyen <thang@os.amperecomputing.com>]

On 18/02/2021 12:23, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 01:31, Thang Nguyen <thang@os.amperecomputing.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 18/02/2021 06:46, Nancy Yuen wrote:
>>
>> Code should be put into an appropriate repo, and repos created where necessary.  Then referenced in recipes from openbmc/openbmc metalayers.
>>
>> Thanks Nancy for the feedback. Do we have requirement for this or just a recommendation?
> It's a requirement.
>
> OpenBMC uses a project called yocto, which is itself based on
> openembedded (OE). OE is a set of build scripts and configuration
> files for building a filesystem. The filesystem will contain
> applications, such as ipmi daemons, web servers, sensor monitoring
> code, etc. The source code for those applications comes from the
> application's repository. For example, our ssh server (dropbear) comes
> from dropbear's website.
>
> For applications that are developed exclusively for openbmc, we host
> their source code as part of the openbmc organisation on github. But
> the source code lives outside of the main yocto-derived repository,
> and is checked out at build time.
>
> If you have application code that you wish to be part of your system,
> you should first see if it makes sense to contribute that code to an
> existing repository. If it is unique, or deserves it's own repository,
> then you can mail the list to request the creation of a new repository
> for your code.
>
> Apologies if I've covered something you already understood. Once
> you've been around the project for a while it becomes second nature,
> but it was hard to describe the concepts from scratch!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel

Thanks Joel for your feedback.

BR/ThangQ.