On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:17:51AM -0500, Philip Balister wrote: > Sorry to hack the subject and delete the earlier conversation, but Koen > raises a good point here and I do not want it lost in the earlier > discussion since I among others stopped reading the emails in detail. > > Is there a good set of guidelines on the web site (not buried in a git > repo) to guide people making the decision when to create a new layer, as > opposed to contributing to an existing layer? > > How do we make sure layers are well thought out and not people taking > the path of least resistance?
I think this is a more generic and broad question to discuss it just between OE devs. So, my apologies for cross-post, but lets ask wider audience... Denys > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [oe] RFC Creation of a meta-telephony repository > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:45:52 +0100 > From: Koen Kooi <k...@dominion.thruhere.net> > Reply-To: openembedded-de...@lists.openembedded.org > To: openembedded-de...@lists.openembedded.org > > > Having worked with layers for quite a while now I go through the following > list before creating one: > > Does it need to be a layer? -> no -> send patches to existing layers > | > yes > | > Does it need to be a seperate repo? -> no -> send patches to existing repos > | > yes > | > Is github/gitorious/etc good enough? -> no -> ... > | > yes > | > Create repo + layer > > And after a I while re-evaluate it. > > regards, > > Koen _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
