Bug 4823

Summary:	Provide generic, background information about layers
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Toaster	Reporter:	Belen Barros Pena <belen.barros.pena>
Component:	toaster	Assignee:	Alexandru Damian <alexandru.damian>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	jessica.zhang
Version:	1.6
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Belen Barros Pena 2013-07-08 09:28:29 UTC

The kind of details shown in the OE metadata index (for example: http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/layer/openembedded-core/).

When doing build analysis, I should be able to answer the question: what is this layer included in my build and what does it do?

When configuring a build, I should be able to see background information about layers to help me make decisions about which ones to include.

Comment 1 Alexandru Damian 2013-10-21 14:14:26 UTC

Merged in origin/master and origin/dora-toaster

Comment 2 Belen Barros Pena 2013-10-29 18:26:25 UTC

I don't think this can be resolved. The feature calls for the information in the layer index to be displayed within Toaster. When we discussed this, it was agreed it was too much effort and should be done in the future (at that time, 'the future' was 1.6).

Right now, we just provide a link to the layer index, which is different from displaying the information within Toaster.

Is it ok if I reopen this and set the milestone to "future"?

In the analysis piece, the linking is enough. But whenever we get into configuring builds, the feature becomes more important.

Comment 3 Belen Barros Pena 2013-11-04 15:48:51 UTC

Since nobody has complained about my last comment, I am reopening this and setting the milestone to 'future'.

Comment 4 Belen Barros Pena 2014-09-25 15:05:24 UTC

The build functionality of Toaster provides extensive information about layers via what we have called 'external layer sources'. So this enhancement is probably obsolete.