[yocto] YPTM minutes

Tue Feb 5 11:00:54 PST 2019

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:24 AM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 10:11 -0800, Scott Rifenbark wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 8:37 AM <sjolley.yp.pm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Yocto Technical Team Minutes for Feb. 5, 2019.*
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> Attendees: Armin, David, Joshua, Randy, Tim, Richard G., Stephen,
> Jan-Simon, Manjukum, Tracey, Trevor, Nick, Richard P, Mark, Kate, Michael,
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> YP 2.6.1 was released on Feb. 4, 2019.
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> YP 2.7 M2 was built and is in QA and is 79% done.  See:
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/2.7_QA_Status
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> Armin agreed to add Ubuntu 18.4 to YP 2.6 series and we will use in for YP
> 2.7
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> We discussed that the YP 2.6 manual doesn’t have an upgrading to YP 2.6.
> Tracey will look into this.
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> Can I get some clarification on this.  Ubuntu 18.04 seems to be an LTS.  I
> don't have "LTS" listed in the 2.6 ref-manual (
> https://yoctoproject.org/docs/2.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#detailed-supported-distros)
> but do have Ubuntu 18.04 listed as a supported distro.  What is meant by
> "... the YP 2.6 manual doesn't have an upgrading to YP 2.6."?  - Thanks
> Scott
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> I think there is a little confusion here. There are actually 2 issues:
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> 1) The Yocto 2.6 manual doesn't have the "Moving to the Yocto Project 2.6
> Release" section to describe the changes that have been made from 2.5 ->
> 2.6 (
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.6/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#moving-to-the-yocto-project-2.5-release).
> Oddly, this section *is* present in the "latest" mega manual.
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I think I know what happened here.  The tip of "thud" has the section on
migrating to YP 2.6.  However, as pointed out, the published 2.6 manual
does not have it.  During a release, docs lag behind software and
everything else that gets locked down.  I wrote that section for the 2.6
release of the manuals.  Likely, some important fix had to be back-ported
to the manuals post-release and I probably was working from a cloned thud
repo that was checked out on the tag "Yocto-2.6", which is earlier than the
commits for that section.  So, when I rebuilt manuals post-release for
various reasons, it was not included.  I can fix that for the 2.6 version
of the manual.  It is already present in the newly released 2.6.1 version
of the manual.  This problem is ongoing with the docs.  I just recently
have come up with a work-around for these types of situations.  I am now
keeping a local area of changed doc source files per-release for released
manuals.  That way, in the future, I can checkout a release by tag, make
any special changes, and then populate the local repo with the previously
changed files.  Rebuilding then produces manuals with all the one-off
changes that have occurred. - Thanks for the clarification Joshua.

> 2) The second (unrelated) issue has to do with reporting 18.04 as a
> supported host distro. I'm not as familiar with this one, so I'll let
> someone else chime in.
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> We discussed the status of YP 2.7 upgrades and we are doing OK there.  We
> are struggling on new features YP 2.7.  Richard is primarily working to
> stabilize the autobuilder to produce an automated QA report to allow QA to
> transition from Intel.
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> Richard discussed maintainers of OE-Core.  AUH is sending requests but not
> getting feedback.
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> Richard discussed that we have issues with some products and need support
> from the community to fix.
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> Tim discussed ptest issues Richard has identified.
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> Richard asked if there were ideas about how to better communicate with the
> community. No specific suggestions.
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> Thanks,
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> *Stephen K. Jolley*
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> *Yocto Project Project Manager*
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> (    *Cell*:                (208) 244-4460
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> * *Email*:              *sjolley.yp.pm at gmail.com
> <sjolley.yp.pm at gmail.com>*
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> Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker at gmail.com>
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