[OE-core] Status Update

2014-10-03 Thread Richard Purdie
As people know we're working towards the release and I thought an update might be useful. There was a mixup about dates and the rc1 build happened a week early. The first real rc2 was this Tuesday. We merged a variety of fixes into it and it did build out. Unfortunately there were some late

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Purdie
Executive Summary = The -rc4 build of 1.6 was ready for release with some last minute fixes for the beaglebone issues (thanks!). Its great to finally get that out there. I've started merging changes into master. I've put various gcc changes forward that I've had a few moments to

Re: [OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 09:49 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: Master == I've started merging patches in so this has opened for changes. Of note so far: GCC - I did find a few moments to write most of the patches needed to rework our parts of our gcc recipes and continue to improve the

Re: [OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 09:49 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: contains - I also have concerns about the contains() changes being a touch too aggressive and needing a little more soak time. I had assumed they

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Purdie
Changes in the last week The past week has been turbulent. It seemed we were on track early last week, then we found some problems. The -rc3 build suffered some build failures, particularly a sysroot issue with perf. There were also some BSP issues with beaglebone as well

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-08 Thread Richard Purdie
Executive Summary = Continuing to trend well for release, bug fixes continue to be merged although patches are starting to get deferred for 1.7 if they're too risky at this point. 1.6 Release Status === The summary says it all really, bug trends are good but work

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-04-01 Thread Richard Purdie
Executive Summary = 3.14 kernel is in and we have green builds. Managed to make a dent in the defect tracking metrics but work remains. Trending well for the release, need to keep up the bug fixing. 1.6 Release Status === The 3.14 kernel was released, we were able to

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-03-24 Thread Richard Purdie
Executive Summary = A very rocky week but we now have consistent green builds on the autobuilder. 1.6 Release Status === Over the last week things have stabilised a lot from my perspective. Most of the major changes are now in or have at least been tested. In

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Purdie
I was travelling in the last week which limited the time I could spend on various issues. The week has mostly been seeing patches being tested on the autobuilder in MUT/master-next with a view to ironing out bugs before code merges. Pending Patches === I did manage to flush some

[OE-core] Status Update

2014-03-09 Thread Richard Purdie
Its been a while since I sent one of these out, I never got back into the habit after I was away last year. I'm told they're useful to various people and they stop me having to repeat myself to people so I'm going to give them another go. Pending Patches === The feature freeze point

Re: [OE-core] Status Update

2014-03-09 Thread Robert Yang
On 03/10/2014 10:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: Its been a while since I sent one of these out, I never got back into the habit after I was away last year. I'm told they're useful to various people and they stop me having to repeat myself to people so I'm going to give them another go. Pending

[OE-core] Status Update

2013-07-01 Thread Richard Purdie
As previously mentioned, I'm planning on taking some vacation time which starts today and will be until mid August. I will still be around a little bit but not actively reviewing patches and so on as I'd usually be doing. In my absence, Paul, Ross and Saul have kindly agreed to review patches and

Re: [OE-core] Status Update

2013-05-28 Thread Jack Mitchell
On 28/05/2013 18:35, Richard Purdie wrote: snip Richard, These updates are really informative, thank you for taking the time to pull together and summarize. Cheers, -- Jack Mitchell (j...@embed.me.uk) Embedded Systems Engineer http://www.embed.me.uk --

[OE-core] Status Update

2013-05-28 Thread Richard Purdie
Its been a few weeks since I sent one of these out, mainly as I've not had much to report. Pending Patches === Patches have been steadily getting reviewed and merged. Some things took a little longer than is ideal due to travel on Saul and my part. I know Saul is still travelling.

[OE-core] Status Update

2013-05-07 Thread Richard Purdie
In summary its been a fairly quiet week, there are number of different holidays in different geos. Pending Patches === There has been a steady stream of 1.5 patches starting to appear. With Saul's help these have been tested on the autobuilder and then many have been merged into

[OE-core] Status Update

2013-03-20 Thread Richard Purdie
As people know, feature freeze was at the start of the week. I've been trying to ensure the remaining patches get rounded up and into the build. At the same time, the Yocto Project Autobuilder infrastructure has been undergoing an upgrade to new software. I really wanted this to happen now as if