Hosting BSP layers on oe.org?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 mrt 2011, om 18:35 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:

> On 03/21/2011 06:57 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>> Op 4 mrt 2011, om 21:30 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Op 4 mrt 2011, om 17:36 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> With my TSC hat on, I also see this as a board issue, not a TSC issue.
>> 
>> I reread http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter and it is definitely a TSC issue. So can we move forth with the discussion? The board is still unable to make any progress on this it seems.
> 
> OK.  Lets re-start things then.  Can you please start with a proposal for the TSC to talk about, with what's been said here / on oe-members incorporated?

The problem with the oe-members discussion was that is started with false information from Phil B, companies cannot be members since the status require members to be actual persons.

Having said that, my proposal is:

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Allow layers to be hosted on oe.org with access setup to the maintainers liking. The layers should adhere to the following guidelines:

1) Have a README describing layer dependencies, maintainer and optionally bugtracker and mailinglist
2) Have a long term commitment to maintain it, dead layers are no good to anyone
3) Allow external contributions where applicable (e.g. allow pull requests)
4) SRC_URI should be fetchable by the unwashed masses for most, if not all of the recipes
5) The OE hosted layer is the master, not a mirror.

Companies are strongly encouraged to become a patron of the e.V. and/or donate to it when having their layers hosted.

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I think that covers what has been said on the various mailinglists. So let's discuss what needs to get changed/added/delete in the above proposal.

regards,

Koen