OpenEmbedded Technical Steering Committee
18 June 2013

Attendees:
  Koen (koen)
  Fray (fray)
  Paul (bluelightning)
  Khem (khem)
  Richard (RP)
Apologies:

Notes: Jefro

Agenda at a glance:

1. pick a chair
2. new issues
3. lingering issues
    a. role of the TSC
    b. eglibc
4. projects in progress - status
    a. oe-core release
    b. meta-oe appends/overlayed recipes RFC
    c. python 3
    d. release status notification
5. infrastructure
    a. oe.org flooded
6. projects deferred
    a. raise awareness of "janitor" list, QA "bugs"
    b. document whitespace changes to the shell
    c. raise ntp with the Yocto Project [RP]

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Agenda & Results

1. pick a chair
    bluelightning

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2. new issues

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3. lingering issues

a. role of the TSC
	review discussion on mailing list
	elections deferred

b. eglibc
    http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg01268.html
    maintainers (Mentor) removing differences btw eglibc, upstream glibc
    would like to deprecate & remove option groups
        then unable to configure items out
        potentially ruining poky-tiny and others
->    poll users to see if actually being used
    alternatively, find someone willing to maintain
    khem proposes replacing option groups with pure kconfig
=>    raise eglibc issues on mailing list (fray)
=>    get kconfig stuff discussed and proposed to glibc (khem)

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4. projects in progress - status

a. oe-core release
    current phase: M2

b. meta-oe appends/overlayed recipes RFC
    still remaining: busybox and gst-ffmpeg bbappends, xserver-nodm-init
=>  PRINC: issue warning now, error in 1.5, revisit before release (RP)
=>    document PRINC - PR server migration steps (fray)
=>    proposal: error and a disable flag, revise RFC patch (fray)
    RFC switching wholeheartedly to libav (bluelightning) sent, a few responses
->    two bbappends left: gst-ffmpeg (bluelightning) and busybox (khem)
    also tslib (overlay), bluelightning pinging kergoth

c. python 3
->  currently tackling 2.7.3 first
    probably 2.7.3 in 1.5, move to python 3 in 1.6

d. release status notification
=>    maintain a wiki page to summarize release goals (jefro)

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5. infrastructure

a. oe.org flooded
    investigation underway
	Michael recommends Tom's approach, pushing users to mirrors
	  invisibly enabling only actual committers to bang on master
	  kernel.org follows this approach

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6. projects deferred

a. raise awareness of "janitor" list, QA "bugs"
    defer to after 1.4

b. document whitespace changes to the shell
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines
http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Styleguide
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Recipe_%26_Patch_Style_Guide
=> still need to de-dup these, need a volunteer
    ask for volunteers after 1.4 (jefro)

c. raise ntp with the Yocto Project [RP]
immediate need addressed, reasonable default needed
use LICENSE_FLAGS - non-commercial
    no default set after Paul's changes
    RP raised with YP AB
=> going to mailing lists & someone should write a proposal
=> fray will send to list after 1.4


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