[yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:00 AM-9:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).

[Liu, Song]

Attendees:
Dave, MichaelH, Ciby, PaulE, ScottG, BjörnS, Ramana, KevinS, TomZ, Eren, AlexG, ALexD, Richard, BrianR,Jefro, LaurentiuP, Nitin, BruceA, RossB, ScottR, JeffP, MarkH, CristianI, DarrenH, DaveST, JessicaZ, Beth, Song, IoanaG.
 
Agenda:
 
* Opens collection - 5 min (Song)
* Yocto 1.4 status - 20 min (Song/team)
  - This week will have RC1 for QA to run a full pass testing.
  - QA will send out report on the full pass testing on last weekly build.
  - M1 feature complete has come and gone. This week is the planning week for M2. Please schedule your features into M2 and make sure you understand the requirement and please consider holidays and your vacation.
  - Master status: Ross: a couple of problems, mostly green. Saul: connman issue. Mihai: looking at it. Seems to be autobuilder issue. Can fix it by increasing the timeout.
 
* SWAT team rotation: Ross -> LaurentiuP (Friday, RO national holiday, Beth will cover that day)
* Opens - 10 min 
  - Ramana: offline configuration tool. Have some ideas and thoughts, would like to hear more feedback on it. Especially from Mark. 
    . Dave: It is a good idea. 
    . RP: would like to do it in bitbake. Darren and Mark are working on similar things. 
    . Mark: Initial idea is to use bitbake. Pass in packages, etc. without all recipe parsing, etc. 
    . RP: The good place to discuss this is the mailing list.
    . Mark will respond this week. Darren will do so too.
  - Eren - location of the team. 
    . Song: we have teams in US, UK, Romania, Canada, China. There are people here from Sweden, India, etc. We are across the globe. 
    - Jefro:  website and wiki. Thanks for everyone who provided feedback, new website was launched. We are going to setup engineering process for maintenance and production. Anyone interested to help, please let Jefro know.
 
* Team Sharing - 20 min
  - Darren: have been working on ext for file generation code. Got a prototype for pre-populating files/directories, basic frameworks is there. Will have patches out soon. 
  - RP: traveling, fixing bugs on autobuilder, sstates, etc. Been an interesting week, the autobuilder is mostly green now.
  - Cristian: trying to improve build appliance. Updated to a more recent version of poky repos. Network testing is fixed. Produced some build to test it. Tested in vmware player. Working on virualbox. 
  - Radu: working system D. fixing some issues and failures on core-image-minimal. Will work on sato. Code is in contrib branch with my name and 'systemd', welcome comments and feedback. 
  - LaurentiuP: working on package upgrades. Struggling with some relocation issues. It's fixed. Hopefully to move on to the next stage. 
  - Iona: working on Eclipse for windows. Committed a few patches. A few other issues to be addressed, will send patches today.  
  - MichaelH: Worked on bugzilla field description, newest version of Bugzilla has the feature. Making sure we have more hard drives. Holiday networking maintenance. Had 4 short network outages. Coming week, generation of the graphs RP asked. Recofnigration for testopia, etc.