[OE-core] OpenEmbedded TSC Minutes 6 November 2012

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

Attendees: Paul, Mark, Koen, Khem, Richard
Minutes taken by Richard

ELC-E presented an opportunity for a face to face meeting so there are
no irc logs.

The only topic we were asked to discuss was ntp. We agreed that creating
an ntp namespace for OE was a good idea for non-commercial use. We
agreed that either:

1) This should be commented out by default requiring a user to enable it
or
2) We should put in a licence flag that excludes the ntp recipe unless
the user explicitly agrees to it

which are ideas designed to stop people accidentally using the namespace
commercially.

Richard has taken the action to raise ntp with the Yocto Project as they
may wish to use their own namespace too.

Other topics raised:

We have some issues around overwriting of files in areas like the deploy
directory for allarch packages. These are not new issues but have been
there for a long time. New sanity checks are exposing them and there are
real world bugs these cause. It explains several "mystery" bug reports
we've seen over the past couple of years. This topic doesn't lend itself
to f2f discussion so we'll do it on the mailing list but the end result
may be some restrictions on when you can mark a package as allarch and
vice versa.

There was a lot of "misc" discussion about other aspects of the project
but nothing specific I want to capture in the notes. It was useful to
have the TSC face to face to discuss things for a change.

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Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org