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