[Toaster] Toaster Weekly Meeting Minutes 24/08/16

[Barros Pena, Belen]

Attendees: David, Libby, Ed, Brian and Belén

Updates:

David: patch sent for 9936, which gets the 'add' button for layer
dependencies working again. Patch passed UI review: waiting for code
review. Taking 8188 and 8190 about variable history next.

Libby: testing master for 2.2m3

Ed: working on 9869 (artifact events) and on reliably killing toaster
(7973). For the latter, after submitting a series for review we found that
Ubuntu is missing some utilities he is relying on to isolate the running
of build processes. So he will reimplement and resend.

Belén: on holiday last week. Spent this week looking at people's patches.
Submitted a patch for 10179

Brian: working on Randy¹s toaster container to adapt it to running local
tests. When ready will create a tips and tricks document explaining how to
run tests for Toaster with nothing but Docker

Triage bugs:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#YP_Toaster_and_Layer_Index_Bu
gs_needing_Triage

Link to the wiki docs:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Toaster
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Contribute_to_Toaster
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Toaster_and_bitbake_communications

YP 2.2 Planning:
Please capture future items you want at the wiki:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Toaster_future_release_planning

Toaster Docker container:
The link to Randy's toaster container:
https://hub.docker.com/r/crops/toaster/

AR's: 

Brian: send the ARs from last week to Belén so she can add them to the
notes

Brian: send a link to a CROPS instance we can try and the document on how
to run the Toaster Docker container

Brian: talk to Paul Eggleton about the new default assignee for the layer
index bugs

Brian: build one of the images in meta-raspberrypi and dump the events to
check if any missing ones might be causing the builds not finishing
problem. 

Belen: open a bug for the meta-raspberrypi images not finishing problem.
Assign it to Brian

Ed: submit the patch for 10170

Opens:

David: question about starting up Toaster specifying an ip address and
webport. It has been changed to the Django standard way, so to access a
remote Toaster instance you need to pass webport=0.0.0.0:port_number

Belén: meta-raspberrypi. Image builds still show as never completing in
the Toaster UI. Brian looked at the events and there is one that we are
not using named cooker.cookerexit. When the cooker exists, it emits this
event always, independently of build outcome and the metadata. Since this
event cannot be masked by the metadata, we should probably be tying the
Toaster end of builds to this. We have added a couple of ARs to deal with
the issue (see the list of ARs above)

Belén: question about Docker containers and manual. We'll recommend the
docker container as the way to set up toaster in the manual. We will also
include the other way as a secondary way. The container is using sqlite.
Brian is creating the mysql one on top of that.

Belen: Elliot is leaving the team, which is really sad because he is an
excellent developer, a great contributor, and a really nice guy. Thanks
Elliot for all your work over the past couple of releases. You will be
sorely missed. This also means we need someone else as the default
assignee for the layer index bugs. Brian will talk to Paul Eggleton to see
what he recommends.