New Repo Creation Request

[Santosh Puranik]

Hi Brad,

On 12/08/19 10:42 PM, Brad Bishop wrote:
> at 8:51 AM, Santosh Puranik <santosh.puranik.ibm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> Could you create two new repositories:
>>
>> ipz-vpd-parser : Parser application for IPZ format VPD.
>>
>> keyword-vpd-parser : Parser application for keyword format VPD.
>>
>> The design document that details these applications is here:
>>
>> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/22491
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Santosh
>
> Hi Santosh
>
> The design calls for additional systemd services and applications (not 
> necessarily additional git repositories).  Can the new applications 
> and systemd services be hosted in the existing openpower-vpd-parser 
> repository?  We have an awful lot of repos as it is and these new 
> applications seem like a good fit to go with the existing ones in 
> openpower-vpd-parser.
I agree, we can reuse the openpower-vpd-parser repo. for these new 
applications.
>
>
> I’m envisioning a repository that supports parsing a number of 
> different fru data formats.  Support for the different formats can be 
> turned on or off with meson options or autoconf options.   The 
> specifics of how the code would be organized within the build process 
> for openpower-vpd-parser I’d leave to you and the current 
> openpower-vpd-parser maintainer (Deepak).

Deepak and I spoke about this, we'll just use compile time options wherever

possible.

>
> We could rename the repository and/or recipe to something more general 
> if it is just the name that is off-putting.  Open to suggestions there 
> - how about phosphor-fru-parser or just fru-parser or vpd-parser?
I think I am fine with the name as it is. Don't have a particular 
preference.
>
> thx - brad