Rebasing yocto to new freedesktop platform?

[Mario Sanchez Prada]

Hi Alex,

I think that would be a good thing to do, I just have a question:

In the past weeks I've been trying (quite unsuccessfully so far due to other
more priority tasks that kept creeping up on my queue) to work on updating
the version of xdg-utils to have support for the OpenURI portal out of the
box (see [1]), as well as on fixing a problem with missing 8-bit hashes for
SSL certificates (see [2]), as you know.

My question is whether those changes should happen before or along with this
rebase (in which case I'd have to find a way to re-prioritize things, if
possible), or whether it's something we could easily add on top afterwards.
And the reason I ask this is because I foresee little time for me to get
back to those tasks in the next couple of weeks, and perhaps I could tackle
better during the hackfest in London.

Thanks,
Mario

[1] https://github.com/flatpak/freedesktop-sdk-images/issues/12
[2] https://github.com/flatpak/freedesktop-sdk-base/issues/3

On 06/03/17 08:28, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> The current freedesktop platform is based on yocto 2.0, which is now
> "Community supported"[1], and i've heard some complaints about the age
> of some components. Maybe its time to do a freedesktop 1.6 based on the
> latest stable yocto (2.2).
> 
> I'm going to do some experimenting with building it today. If it works
> out we should probably switch to it in the gnome nightly builds and
> target it for the gnome 3.24 release. 
> 
> What is the current stability of the kde runtime? Are you interested in
> a newer base too?
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases
>