On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 16:14 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 01:12:47PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 12:42 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:32:35PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 07:55 -0800, akuster808 wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Are you taking the other patches also submitted for sumo ? > > > > > > > > I am worried about what the bigger picture for this looks like > > > > but > > > > we > > > > could try testing them. I think the TSC needs to discuss this. > > > > > > How were community supported branches supposed to work? > > > > > > All branches from 2.1 (sic) are documented as supported in the > > > wiki. > > > > That was changed recently > > What was changed recently was that the pre-2.1 branches were marked > EOL: > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Releases&diff=62334&oldid=62324 > > Non-stable branches are documented as community-supported since 2014: > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Releases&diff=12747&oldid=12743 > > > and I kind of wish we'd waited until we'd > > followed through with a consistent plan which covers the spectrum > > of > > EOL/community/stable/LTS. > > > > As I've said in a few places, the TSC really needs to figure this > > out > > and its complicated by the LTS discussions. Those discussions are > > happening but aren't simple. > > Past releases and future releases might be separate topics. > > Please keep in mind that many people already have to support products > on existing stable branches, working under the assumption that > patches > submitted by the community will be accepted. > > Closing future non-LTS branches early might be OK if this is part of > a > clearly communicated EOL schedule for future LTS and non-LTS > releases, > like it is clear when Ubuntu releases will be released and for how > long > they are supported. > > But this visibility on upstream support is needed before deciding on > a Yocto release for a product. Future LTS releases are irrelevant > for > existing products that cannot move to a different stable branch. >
current and prior two releases are actively maintained. So that should have been the consideration when selecting a release for production in past. see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance > > Cheers, > > > > Richard > > cu > Adrian > > -- > > "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out > of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. > "Only a promise," Lao Er said. > Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core