NOTE: I apologize for the lateness of these minutes; they go a lot faster
when the meeting is held online!
OpenEmbedded Technical Steering Committee
15 February, 2012
face-to-face meeting at Embedded Linux Conference
Attending:
Richard Purdie
Mark Hatle
Tom Rini
Khem Raj
Paul Eggleton
minutes: Jeff Osier-Mixon
Agenda:
There was no fixed agenda for this meeting - the notes below
describe what was discussed.
Yocto Project DevDay discussion
The Yocto Project had its first Developer Day the day before this
meeting. There were several presentations as well as hands-on labs
for both new and experienced users.
BitBake interrupts
When BitBake hangs, there is no feedback from it, can't ctrl-c
Richard believes it is a threading problem, following up with Chris L
UPDATE: found to be a double shutdown, patches have been merged
Moving to Python 3
Possible, not really a problem if want to do it
Many technical issues discussed, no action items assigned
Elections
After next week, remind the board
Mark is up now, then Tom, then cycle is done
zlib
Khem, Matt McClintock submitted many patches
Have been doing shakeout, decided not to inflict on issues
Gary Thomas found many isses as well
Issue - enabling basic hash, should resolve zlib issue in future
Proposal on oe list, doing this in yocto, could do in oe-core
AR: RP did this after meeting
TSC Retrospective meeting with board
Agreed to meet with board for lunch for an annual retrospective
memory usage issues
Discussion about current BitBake memory footprint growth
Use of fetchers to fetch metadata, suggested from previous
discussions - Jeremy Puhlman, Richard, Paul
do as part of bb build process or as separate step
Many other memory issues discussed
Found some memory issue and changes merged recently to improve
the codeparser cache.
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Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
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