Hosting BSP layers on oe.org?

[Philip Balister]

On 03/08/2011 07:27 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 8 mrt 2011, om 15:07 heeft Philip Balister het volgende geschreven:
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>> On 03/08/2011 03:12 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>>> Op 5 mrt 2011, om 01:10 heeft Philip Balister het volgende geschreven:
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>>>> On 03/04/2011 01:30 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On 03/04/2011 10:10 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>>> CC: ing the board, although I know Philip is playing in the snow next
>>>>>> week.
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>>>> He has wifi though :) Don't expect great thoughts from me unless the snow gets crappy.
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>>>> I need to think through the BSP issue. I think you guys have touched on the key issues. There is also the issue of control of BSP's. (ie commit access)
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>>> Can I get an ETA on when the board will have a decision? I don't like being forced to sit on my hands.
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>> At least one board member is on vacation (for real).
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> That leaves 2 others...
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>> I should have asked earlier, what is the time frame for figuring this out? In my mind it wouldn't become critical until we had substantial progress on oe-core. And until we have a real release, hosting things on services like github should allow progress on actual work.
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> I'm working on the internal TI roadmap for using OE-core and we want to host our "community" layers on OE.org to show that those layers aren't owned, but maintained by TI. The evil closed stuff layer will remain on a TI server.
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> I know I can host stuff on github (it's on gitorious already), but I want a clear statement from the board what they think of OE hosted BSPs. I also know that the board only has one useful member currently (Philip), but can I get at least an estimate on how long a decision is going to take? If it's more than a week I need to make some different arrangements for the next TI meeting on friday.

I should point out that Florian's primary responsibility is keeping 
track of finances and not dealing with the other administrative stuff. 
He's generally available for these things as long as work isn't crazy.

Philip

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> regards,
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> Koen
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>> Philip
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>>>> As OE, we are not dogmatic about being open source purists, so there is room to just make things work in order maximize people ease of using OE.
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>>>> Philip
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>>>>>> Op 4 mrt 2011, om 17:36 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:
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>>>>>>> On 3/4/11 10:30 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not sure if this a pure TSC issue, but really like your input on
>>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>>> <TI hat on>   I would like to host the TI BSP layer(s) on oe.org as
>>>>>>>> well as the
>>>>>>>> mailinglist(s) and patchwork config(s) to encourage the wider
>>>>>>>> community to
>>>>>>>> participate. My question is "Do we want that" and if so, "Do we want to
>>>>>>>> encourage it?".<TI hat off>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It would be really nice if we can get people (e.g. silicon vendors,
>>>>>>>> OEM,
>>>>>>>> community developers) to do their OE stuff in the open and host them on
>>>>>>>> oe.org. What's your opinion on this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Speaking for my involvement in Yocto for a small bit. This was one of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> things that we had planned early to enable in Yocto. We were not sure
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> purely open source groups such as OE would allow for BSP layers to be
>>>>>>> hosted
>>>>>>> from their site or not. (Especially when you factor in many BSPs require
>>>>>>> proprietary drivers of some type to be fully functional...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <back to my TSC role>   I would certainly encourage BSP layers under
>>>>>>> the umbrella
>>>>>>> of Open Embedded. But I have a feeling this is one of the questions
>>>>>>> we need to
>>>>>>> ask the board about. They're the ones that are going to give us
>>>>>>> guidance on
>>>>>>> what rules (proprietary or not) as well as if they think it's
>>>>>>> appropriate. -- if
>>>>>>> they do, we can certainly help guide this within OE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Koen
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>>>>> With my TSC hat on, I also see this as a board issue, not a TSC issue.
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