On Thursday 17 May 2012 19:11:20 Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Paul Eggleton > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 17 May 2012 18:51:05 Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> It is important to state that if OE-Core breaks Meta-OE this is > >> crticial. It is not Yocto that people use and many active contributors > >> use Meta-OE so it is important and critical to that people. Seems more > >> health to the project to give the deserved value to Meta-OE instead of > >> badmouth it... > > > > The sooner people can start using it without fear of it doing unexpected > > things, the sooner people will be able to have more confidence in it and > > stop making negative comments about it. As it stands the way a lot of > > people treat meta-oe is a source of recipes to be copied elsewhere > > because they feel they cannot use the layer as a whole. I think that's a > > big shame. > > Agreed; the nice thing about Free Software is that we can do something > about it; do negative comments help nothing. > > Most people on Yocto do not contribute actively to Meta-OE. As > example, you did 12 commits in total to it...
No, we don't, but that's probably because we have our hands full maintaining BitBake and OE-Core (with the help of others in the community, of course). Not to mention that when we do enable it on top of OE-Core / Poky without wanting to use systemd, it makes a whole raft of changes that usually cause breakage of some kind because that configuration is rarely tested. This just makes using and contributing to meta-oe harder. We really do recognise that there has to be a source of recipes outside OE- Core, and meta-oe is the current place for a lot of those. However there is just so much work to be done on BitBake and OE-Core that venturing into meta- oe as well is something a lot of us don't have time for in our daily work, especially with its current state. I do use meta-oe when I'm building stuff at home but there I more or less have my hands full maintaining meta-handheld, meta-opie and a bunch of other things. I hope during the current development cycle that I will have time to contribute to meta-oe further. I can't make any promises though. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
