Reducing fragmentation in OpenBMC

[Brad Bishop]

On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 10:25 +0800, 郁雷 wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:53 AM Andrew Geissler <
> geissonator at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I know phosphor-dbus-interfaces has always been a bit onerous. I do
> > feel like
> > we get some good stuff in the reviews though. It also ensures we
> > have
> > documentation  of our interfaces. The cross-repo dependencies we
> > get are a bit frustrating (i.e. need to get interface merged and
> > bubbled into
> > openbmc before you can implement). There’s also no versioning
> > concept so
> > if an interface needs to be changed, it’s a huge pain. Ideas on how
> > we could
> > make this easier but keep the benefits? Or people that don’t use it
> > and just
> > define their own interfaces, any improvements we could make to get
> > you to use it?
> > 
> 
> This usually involves the repo CI.
> If we could implement "Cross-repo dependencies", making the Jenkins
> job able to pick the "dependent" revision of phosphor-dbus-interfaces
> (or sdbusplus, or else), and build a docker container with the
> dependencies to run the repo CI, the issue could be resolved.

This would be a nice feature to have in our CI when cross repo
dependencies come up.  But I don't think  having that would give us
free license to add cross repo dependencies everywhere though - I would
like to see us come up with a system that avoids the need for cross-
repo dependencies in the first place.