[yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:00 AM US Pacific Time

[Sona Sarmadi]

Nice to meet you guys in the meeting ☺

Short background:
My name is Sona Sarmadi, and I am responsible for security for the Enea Linux & related opens source products which is based on Yocto. Together with some other colleagues (Maxin John, Daniel Bornaz ..) we take care of security patches (i.e. backport them from stable kernels to our kernels if they have not already fixed by Yocto or meta-vendors maintainers (such as meta-fsl-ppc, meta-fsl-arm, meta-ti, meta xilinx …). 

We prefer help yocto community and backport securtiy patches from stable kernels to Yocto rather than doing this work inside Enea repo in the meta-enea layer. I know that Yocto has  well defined process for backporting security patches from stable kernels to Yocto kernels which is good, but I haven’t figured out if there is well defined process as well for vendor kernels such as meta-xilinx or meta-ti (meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org, meta-ti at yoctoproject.org, etc ..)? I see that sometimes security patches have been backported to these kernels but not always. I just wonder if there is anything we can help here. 

Any suggestion for helping Yocto community within security are welcome.

Cheers
/Sona

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Subject: [yocto] Minutes: Yocto Project Technical Team Meeting - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:00 AM US Pacific Time

Attendees: Armin, Stephen, Joe, Alex V., Paul, Tom, Belen, Ross, Matthew, Bruce, Michael, Alex, Richard, Saul, Benjamin, Anibal, Sona, 
 
* Opens collection - 5 min (Stephen)
* Yocto Project status - 5 min (Stephen/team)
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v1.7_Status
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_1.7_Schedule
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_1.7_Features
YP 1.7 M3 rc2 is ready for release – to be released this week.  We are in m4 the stabilization milestone for 1.7.  1.7 is on track for October release.
YP 1.6.2 will be release shortly after 1.7 is completed
YP 1.5.4 will be release shortly after 1.7 is completed
Beginning planning for 1.8 – If there are features you would like to have or contribute, get enhancement bug requests into bugzilla for them.
* SWAT team rotation: Nitin -> Beth
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team
* Opens - 10 min 
Richard - There have been changes to the tool chain/SDK/ADT environment scripts to fix bugs, testing in that area would be appreciated
* Team Sharing - 10 min
Michael – Doing some server work today.  It shouldn’t interfere with anything. 
Sona – Willing to help on Security for Yocto. Would like to contribute Yocto.  Suggestions are welcome on where to help.

Thanks,

Stephen K. Jolley
Yocto Project Program Manager
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