The OpenEmbedded members elect the Board to represent their interests, including at the Yocto Project meetings. The Board then decides who attends those YP meetings - usually there are 2

.... The easiest way to think about the difference between the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded is: The Yocto Project members are companies and OpenEmbedded members are individuals. OpenEmbedded is

Standing the test of time is the opposite of reacting to whatever is trending on social media. In a few months the Twitter mob will have found something else to attack, the sane action is to lie low

Can you find _any_ example of a thing that stands the test of time? Everything we do, make, or say places us at this specific time and place in history. We used python as the basis of bitbake and

Yes, there are specific mailing lists and meetings the members have. Philip represents OE at those meetings. I believe this matter falls under the remit of the YP TSC. If the members want to

The change in the meaning of sinister is reflected in all major English language dictionaries. This is not the case with whitelist/blacklist. I really question if this is just a misunderstanding.

Hi George, nice to hear from you :-) From an etymological point of view the original, and only, meaning of the word "sinister" was "left-handed"! Consider how the meaning of that simple word

According to https://www.yoctoproject.org/ecosystem/members/ the following companies are YP members: - Intel - Texas Instruments - Comcast - ARM - Cisco - Facebook - Xilinx - Microsoft - Windriver -

I think that master in isolation is not problematic, but all instances of master/slave should be eliminated, as well as white/blacklist (regardless of possible race connotations, assigning meaning to

Right now we're in the discussion phase. As far as I'm concerned, if most people who speak up decide that's what we should do, then that's what I'll work towards; although (from the feedback so far)

On 7/15/20 10:45 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: "Master" has been used in commit headers, so do we intend on re-writing git history? -armin

To be really clear, whilst you keep saying this, I have heard of no such plans from the LF and I have asked. Yes, the LF is a strong believer in diversity and does take these issues seriously but as

<pidge@...> wrote: If people find the terms whitelist/blacklist offensive I encourage them to communicate this to the community. Other than the obvious (which seems may be a coincidence?) I

This is a good question. Some projects are replacing "master" in isolation; such as when used as a branch name. Other projects are only replacing "master" when paired with "slave".

If the word "master" alone is considered non-inclusive for people in the US then CVs are also affected, like speaker bios at conferences. What replacement term are US universities using for their

A note here, as I was talking with Paul Barker about this last week. We've already done this in part of YP, in the now retired autobuilder code base (about 6 years ago), removing master/slave

On 7/14/20 10:31 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: Well, as I see it, the LF will make a ruling and then the Yocto Project with have to follow. If OE decides not to change then this

Thank you Rich, Am Mi., 15. Juli 2020 um 16:00 Uhr schrieb Rich Persaud <persaur@...>: This is exactly what I wanted to convey. Couldn't word it any better way.

"Trunk" also has the advantage of describing a physical object ("tree") which overlaps with the functional role of the digital object being named. Here's the etymology of "main", which does not

In comparison to Github (hundreds of employees, sold for billions) or the Linux kernel with contributors from large commercial ecosystems (e.g. RedHat/IBM and Google/Android), OE was architected by a