Re: [yocto] State of crops/poky-container

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM Yoann Congal via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Le mer. 4 févr. 2026 à 13:33, Martin Siegumfeldt via
> lists.yoctoproject.org <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have happily been using crops/poky-container the last years for CI
>> work. Maintenance of it appears decreasing though, last commit is two years
>> old and the most recent supported Ubuntu LTS version is 22.04. PRs have not
>> been responded to for the last ~1 year. I thus wonder if there is no
>> intention of maintaining it in the future? AFAICT, there is no associated
>> mailing list and GH PRs (at least used to be) seems the means for
>> contributing.
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> CROPS is in dire need of a maintainer and has been for a long time (look
> for "CROPS" in
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/2025_Yocto_Project_Weekly_Status_Archive
> ).
> Would you be willing to take that role? (Basically, there can be no
> maintenance without a maintainer)
>

There's also a developing plan to generate a similar CROPS container from
meta-virtualization using our very own yocto components.

Stay tuned, it shouldn't be too long before we can either confirm or deny
that
the new approach is happening or not.

Bruce



>
> Thanks
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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