proposal: remove DirectFB from oe-core in the next release cycle
Hello,
DirectFB upstream project has been dead for several months, the website has completely disappeared, and no explanation or apology has ever surfaced. [1]
So let's keep DirectFB in the forthcoming release, but drop it early in the next release cycle.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-Is-It-Gone
Alex
Quoted 7 lines · Alexander Kanavin
DirectFB upstream project has been dead for several months, the website has completely disappeared, and no explanation or apology has ever surfaced. [1]
So let's keep DirectFB in the forthcoming release, but drop it early in the next release cycle.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-Is-It-Gone
I would be in favor of dropping it for 2.1 release.
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Quoted 10 lines · Alexander Kanavin
Hello,
DirectFB upstream project has been dead for several months, the website has completely disappeared, and no explanation or apology has ever surfaced. [1]
So let's keep DirectFB in the forthcoming release, but drop it early in the next release cycle.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-Is-It-Gone
FWIW, https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB is the new location of the upstream repository. I see that you opened an issue there, so you're already aware. The last commit is from October 2015.
I guess many other projects in OE-Corew have seen much less activity. So what's the real reason for this proposal? Failing update scripts?
Regards,
Andreas
Quoted 4 lines · Andreas Oberritter
FWIW, https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB is the new location of the upstream repository. I see that you opened an issue there, so you're already aware. The last commit is from October 2015.
I guess the thing missing is an indication that the repo on github is official and maintained. Specifically the deniskropp repo has been recently touched but you have to admit that
https://github.com/DirectFB/directfb looks more official.
Ross
Quoted 9 lines · Ross
On 22 January 2016 at 15:38, Andreas Oberritter <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
FWIW, https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB is the new location of the upstream repository. I see that you opened an issue there, so you're already aware. The last commit is from October 2015.
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I guess the thing missing is an indication that the repo on github is official and maintained. Specifically the deniskropp repo has been recently touched but you have to admit
that https://github.com/DirectFB/directfb looks more official.
Denis Oliver Kropp is the main developer of DirectFB and the description of https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB says "Official DirectFB GitHub Repository".
Regards,
Andreas
Quoted 4 lines · Andreas Oberritter
Denis Oliver Kropp is the main developer of DirectFB and the description of https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB says "Official DirectFB GitHub Repository".
The owner being the main developer is good, thanks.
Ross
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I guess the thing missing is an indication that the repo on github is official and maintained. Specifically the deniskropp repo has been recently touched but you have to admit
that https://github.com/DirectFB/directfb looks more official.Denis Oliver Kropp is the main developer of DirectFB and the description of https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB says "Official DirectFB GitHub Repository".
Why did he make a new account on github then? Commits to the old directfb repo were done from a different account (https://github.com/dfbdok). Also, there has been no activity whatsoever since October, and no announcement anywhere, and no response to my request or the other open issue in that repo. I wouldn't trust that directfb is still alive; we need to wait and see.
To me, it looks likely that the funding was cut, Denis Kropp has tried to keep the project alive but then just abandoned it.
Alex
Quoted 12 lines · Alexander Kanavin
Hello,
DirectFB upstream project has been dead for several months, the website has completely disappeared, and no explanation or apology has ever surfaced. [1]
So let's keep DirectFB in the forthcoming release, but drop it early in the next release cycle.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-Is-It-Gone
There is another followup from phoenix. Here
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-On-GitHub
github repo is here
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I guess the thing missing is an indication that the repo on github is official and maintained. Specifically the deniskropp repo has been recently touched but you have to admit
that https://github.com/DirectFB/directfb looks more official.Denis Oliver Kropp is the main developer of DirectFB and the description of https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB says "Official DirectFB GitHub Repository".
Why did he make a new account on github then? Commits to the old directfb repo were done from a different account (https://github.com/dfbdok). Also, there has been no activity whatsoever since October, and no announcement anywhere, and no response to my request or the other open issue in that repo. I wouldn't trust that directfb is still alive; we need to wait and see.
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To me, it looks likely that the funding was cut, Denis Kropp has tried to keep the project alive but then just abandoned it.
Lets just wait and point our recipes to new github repo, There are users of directfb in OE,moreover October 2015 wasn’t long ago. Its too early to consider it dead.
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Alex
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Quoted 2 lines · Khem Raj
Lets just wait and point our recipes to new github repo,
If you can find the sha corresponding to the directfb-1.7.7 tarball then we'll certainly update the SRC_URI, separately from the "should it be removed from oe-core" discussion.
(https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB/issues/2, the bulk of the 1.7 branch and tags are missing)
Ross
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Quoted 2 lines · Khem Raj
Lets just wait and point our recipes to new github repo,
If you can find the sha corresponding to the directfb-1.7.7 tarball then we'll certainly update the
SRC_URI, separately from the "should it be removed from oe-core" discussion.
Note that building DirectFB directly from git sources adds an extra dependency on the 'flux' tool, for which there's no recipe in oe-core right now.
https://github.com/deniskropp/flux
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(https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB/issues/2, the bulk of the 1.7 branch and tags are missing)
Ross
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Quoted 4 lines · Andre McCurdy
Note that building DirectFB directly from git sources adds an extra dependency on the 'flux' tool, for which there's no recipe in oe-core right now.
Urgh. I was hoping that if/when the "maintainer" pushes the git repos and tags, that he could also upload the tarballs.
For now, I've sent a patch to change the directfb recipes to download directly from the source mirror, so that 1) even without our source mirror it downloads fine and 2) the automated checkuri can be two recipes closer to parsing.
Ross