[yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:00 AM-9:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).

[Liu, Song]

Attendees:
Darren, Saul, Beth, Jessica, Richard, Michael, ScottR, ScottG, Mark, Sean, Tom, Laurentiu, Joshua, Paul, Jeff, Bruce, Jeremy, Song
 
Agenda
* Opens collection - 5 min (Song)
* 1.2.1 update: 
  - Bug fixing are coming in
  - 31 open for 1.2.1 14 fixed (a few of them are in 1.2, some duplicate), 6 of them have code fixes.
  - We need more process definition as how this should work. There is a wiki: Yocto point development workflow. Scott will send it to the public mailing list.
  - RP: a couple of issues we don't have good handle: fetcher failure & ?. 3-4 for 1.2.1 bugs.
 
* Yocto 1.3 planning  - 10 min (Song/team)
  - Features estimate are mostly done, Mark was on vacation, estimate will be done this week. Schedule will be done this week, process will be reviewed internally and then reviewed by the public.
* SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Saul
* Opens - 10 min
  - Master status (RP): various issues on the master, Koen's patches, etc. who is responsible for debugging and fixing the problem? Gcc4.7 , ppc64, Continue merging patches. Building and testing with autobuilder. Dividing patches into different groups/branches for isolated testing.
  - Autobuilder downtime (Beth/Michael): 
    - Michael: working hard on this for a while, 16 additional TB on auto builder, faster disk, going through AB, upgrading to a new set of os's. New DNS entries. More robust, more space. 4 build slaves available, 3 of them have pending upgrade to go.
    - Beth: Get a new development cluster with hardware upgrade. Master should be up today. Should be able to start building sometime today. Working on the shared states bug (1938)
    - RP got access denied this morning. Michael will work it out.
  - Josh: 1.1.2 release: 
    - Been working on an Edison branch. Sent an email a couple weeks ago, some bugs are fixed. Been testing, especially in useradd, sstate area. Will review past release notes and make sure necessary known issues are addressed.
    - Communicated with Matthew on this release already.
* Team Sharing - 20 min
  - Jeremy: None this week
  - Bruce: in a different time zone last week, slow on merging some patches. There are some patches ready for merge now. getting things for 1.3. Tree manipulation, kernel specifics. Waiting for announcement LTSI, may lock kernel version early for 1.3. there still will be both dev kernel and stable version. 
  - Paul: working on a couple of things: file checksums, reducing the number host prerequisites, uncovered some host contamination issue. Been a valuable exercise. Will continue  this week.
  - Josh: Edison stable release 1.1.2, nativesdk packages, need to sync with paul for host dependency, continue bug testing
  - Tom: BSP work and 1.3 planning.
  - Sean: established a meta-mentor git repo, transitioning things from yocto.org to that. Would like to talk with RP pn host contamination. Starting work on 1.3, contribute to 1.3, very small team.
  - Mark: upgrading RPM to 5.4.9. Nothing major from usability will change. Working with RPM maintainer to resolve licensing issues. ETA end of next week. Upgrade zipper at the same time, having problems, related c++ lib, boost, gave up for now , will come back in a couple weeks. Automated script generation update alternatives.
  - ScottG: 1.2.1 work, process doc, Linux zigbee is being integrated, seems to compile, small, install issues.
  - ScottR: clean up the area we hold the docs on. Now we have all the releases setup correctly. Discovered tons of bugs and fixed them. Paul helped fixed some bugs. Worked on examples. This week will be down the bug Path
  - Michael: started with Bugzilla upgrade. Hardware upgrade, Oss Bios up to date. Continue hardware upgrade then go back to Bugzilla category-reorg, ETA Friday for bug reclassification. 
  - Richard: Ongoing improvement on oe-core, fixing master problems, unit testing of bitbake. Put some basic tests in place. Some issues in bitbake version comparison. Continue fetcher, the test framework, 1.3 planning.
  - Jessica: 1.3 planning, starting 3-5 bug fixes. Loose end bugs, 1.2.1 bugs. After this will be 1.3.
  - Beth: planning, licensing optimization issue. New description (categories) for bugzilla upgrade.
  - Saul: doing 1.3 planning , bug scrub with Jessica/Richard, pull request, package updates, patch upstreaming
  - Darren: mostly BSP work, 1.3 planning, there are some FRI II BSP updates, sometime today to get the accelerometer working. A bit of time for bitbale script to automate some tasks.