[yocto-ab] Yocto Project Advisory Board Minutes: August 28, 2012

[Osier-mixon, Jeffrey]

[slightly updated]

Yocto Project Advisory Board
August 28, 2012 - San Diego, CA

Attending:
John Cherry
Philip Balister
Steve Sakoman
Daniel Stenberg
Davide Ricci
Dave Stewart
Chris Buerger
Lieu Ta
Sean Hudson
Richard Purdie
Sanil Kumar
Jefro
Mike Woster

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1.3 beta program announced

  All attendees: ask Song about instructions

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Infrastructure

  autobuilder updated, greatly improves disk life
    reducing infrastructure costs
  dave will have a full insfrastructure report at elce

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Compliance Program & Advocacy

  compliance program is all set
  rebranding effort in process
  mascot giveaway in process
  demos in process
      main demo: 2-meter remote controlled blimp!
  sean: philip to ask about other demos
=>    also asking for booth help at conferences
        rack of boards, possibly running Shoeleather
=>AR to advoacy team to set date for help & other demos
    cutoff 4-5 weeks before conf

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Documentation

  need content, restructuring
  offer bounty for help?
=>Jefro to set up doc review
   identify areas not documented

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QA

=>Jefro to set up meeting with sean/rp, also lorentiu, possibly beth
  Sanil suggests central infrastrcture for yocto testing, possibly cloud based
  => Jefro to set up meeting

  Testopia now part of bugzilla

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Yocto Project 1.4 Planning

1.4 feature enhancements need to go into bugzilla
=>remind people to file in bugzilla
  kick off 4 weeks before release date
  goal is to have plan out with in a couple weeks of release

  davide: usability
    build appliance
  ds: relative value of building from source vs binaries
  davide: cross-build binaries
    package feed, tools to build
        some exist now, need documentation
        workflow - diagrams (tracey)
  sanil: migration process between architectures

  message strengthened, technical how to do it
    step by step
=> better diagrams

  tracey: who are we trying to attract & what do they need
    davide: possibly linaro - strengthen relationship

  RP: focus on layers. core working well now
=> find maintainers
     identify key layers

  LTSI:
  John: ltsi kernels
    reset plans - 1.3 based on 3.4 kernel, laid ground work for LTSI
        1.4 release full integration planned - support latest + LTSI

  Sean: web hob


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Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org


-- 
Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org