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. elections
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

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2. new issues



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3. lingering issues

a. role of the TSC
	(http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-April/038756.html)
	proposal: monthly IRC meeting to replace one of the bi-weekly TSC meetings, open to all
	split the TSC role in two.. have a infrastructure, etc TSC similar to now.. as well as 'resolve technical conflicts'
=> 	post RFC on mailing list (RP)
	defer vote

b. elections
=>	jefro to flag the board, recommend defer elections (DONE)
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4. projects in progress - status

a. oe-core release
	release status emails very well received
	stabilisation period for 1.5 M1 now
	teething issues w/ gcc 4.8
	trending OK

b. meta-oe appends/overlayed recipes RFC
	still remaining: busybox and gst-ffmpeg bbappends, xserver-nodm-init
	Warning: PRINC is deprecated, the use of the PR server is recommended, see ...
=>	issue warning, plan to make it an 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

c. python 3
	need to start informing people of it -now-
	loop around to decide python version etc - no current update

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

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5. infrastructure

a. oe.org flooded
=> investigate YP hosting, kernel.org mirror (jefro)
	monitor for now

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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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