Revision as of 11:38, 8 March 2011

MeeGo SDK Weekly Meeting 20110309

This document contains agenda and minutes (added after the meeting) of SDK weekly telco meeting on 20110309 07:30 EEST.

Conventions of this document

• AP: = Action point agreed on this meeting
• yyyymmdd AP: = Action point agreed on previous meeting
• yyyymmdd AP yyymmdd: = Action point agreed on previous meeting with a deadline
• yyyymmdd AP DONE: = Action point done
• yyyymmdd AP CANCELLED: = Action point cancelled
• AGREE: = Item that has been agreed by the team
• POSTPONED: = Agenda item postponed from last meeting
• OLD: = Info from previous meeting (delete during the meeting)

Attendees

Agenda

SDK Program (Veli)

• Nokia changes...

Features (Ville)

Architecture (Bob)

(Meetings held weekly, as needed)

• http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Architecture

Topics for future meetings:

• How to speed up MeeGo SDK
  • Install (reduce size, target/sysroot management)
  • Deploy/debug (QEMU acceleration, deploy w/o packaging, etc)
• rsync: Using QEMU files for sysroot
  • http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Sysroot_extension
• Release process (discussion started)
• Windows builds (server - http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11762, process)
• How to identify the installed MeeGo SDK version (registry key, file, gconf)

Covered in past weeks (Resolutions here: http://piratepad.net/qqICWdiYLl )

• Thurs 20th Meeting
  • Package group - list of devel packages in sysroot
    • Study on http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Packages_group
  • Qt Creator rc1 promotion and QA

• Thurs 13th Meeting
  • Accomodate 3rd party libraries in addition to sysroot on Windows and Linux
  • Feature 10949 - [FEA] Make the installation of MeeGo SDK for Linux easier http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10949

• • AP: Add minutes to: http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Meetings (Bob) DONE.

Releasing (Fathi)

• Toolchain broken on Fedora 14 ARM fixed, IA32 broken
  • https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13608 (Anas)
  • build works locally but not OBS
  • Full toolchain upgrade to 1.2 is on the way. Pending windows toolchain integrated.
• Qt 4.7.2, Qt Creator 2.1.0 released - to be integrated on week 9
• Random images broken regularly
  • On week 8: meego-handset-ia32-qemu, meego-netbook-ia32-qemu (Jackie)
  • On week 9: meego-handset-ia32-qemu, meego-netbook-ia32-qemu (Jackie) Working with Yi for the problem.
• qemu-arm and qemu-gl merge in progress
• Qt Simulator to review and promote
• Integrated meego-sdk-update-target and meego-sdk-checkversion into package meego-sdk-utils.

Windows port (Max)

• A new installer with shrunken Qt Simulator, latest Qt Creator and MADDE has been released to QA yesterday.
  • Windows SDK will be released to QA every two weeks if there are enough new changes. It will take 1+ weeks for QA (1 person) to test it.
  • Updated bug scrub guideline for review.
• server available at OSU. Al has started to set up it.
  • A suid issue on the frontend build server - Max will follow this issue
  • Windows machine availability issue - We'll try virtual system for Windows first

Mac OS X port (David)

• David Lawlor started in Portland, OR (Intel) on Jan 31st.
• Mac server available at OSU
  • MacOS machine availability issue
• ARM toolchain available
• Beta desired for MeeGo 1.2 (release in May).
• Intel guess at release is July. But scoping work is just starting.

Toolchains (JuhaK / Jarmo)

• Toolchain meetings biweekly (http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Toolchains/Meetings#MeeGo_Toolchain_Project_Meetings)
• Al is working on building the arm cross compilers for hardfp. Done (OBS)
• Intel will start performance/regression testing with gcc 4.5.2 in the near future
• Talked a bit about taking 4.5.2 into use already in MeeGo 1.2, but that was considered a big risk this late
• MeeGo 1.3 toolchain is planned to be 4.5.2 or 4.5.3 if it comes out early enough, glibc 2.13, binutils 2.21
• Will have a telco with Linaro guys to chat about their toolchain work later today

• Next steps to be done (Anas Nasif to take care next week):

  * Set up linkpac in Trunk
  * Add in prjconf in relevant places
  * Enable Trunk armv8el scheduler
  * Disable all builds of armv8el
  * Seed Trunk armv8el scheduler (/build/Trunk/standard/armv8el) with contents from devel:hardfp:prep:Trunk armv7el scheduler
  * Enable builds for: glibc-arm | glibc-devel-arm | glibc-headers-arm | kernel-headers-arm

Documentation (Taru)

• Taru Laine is the doc team lead.
• Weekly documentation telco meetings will be restarted on March 3.
• Documentation backlog for MeeGo 1.2 SDK can be found here: http://wiki.meego.com/Documentation_Backlog_for_MeeGo_1.2
  • • AP Taru: Invite Tiffiny to the MeeGo SDK documentation team meetings that will be restarted on week 9. DONE
• Unresolved issues to discuss with the SDK team:
  • Documentation team members for this week's meeting.
  • New feature hierarchy and its impacts on documentation
  • Community contribution for MeeGo 1.2 documentation, especially for Instructions and best practices and Sample applications.
  • Finding owners for the following tasks: Device provisioning instructions for netbook, Netbook UI guidelines, Debugging instructions for MeeGo 1.2 SDK (currently part of Other documentations feature), Creating a Hello world application (currently part of Other documentations feature), Instructions for building MeeGo image/QEMU image (currently part of Other documentations feature)
  • Timetable for MeeGo 1.2 SDK developer documentation features (based on the milestones assigned for the MeeGo 1.2 SDK features)

QA (Juha)

• All QA reports at http://qa-reports.meego.com/
• Feature status :
  • Released :
    • total 6
    • test case exists 5
  • Resolved :
    • total 19
    • testability checked 14
    • test case exists
    • under work 4 (+ OBS related cases are waiting for more information)
  • Accepted :
    • total 107
    • testability checked 8
    • test case exists
• Testing
  • Testing done for meego-core-armv7l-madde-sysroot-1.1.90.5.20110301.7 on Ubuntu 10.10 32bit and Fedora13 32bit.
  • Results updated to http://qa-reports.meego.com/1.2/Sdk/Basic%20Feature%20Testing/N900 .
  • New bugs created :
    • [#14169] WLAN Connection failed.
    • [#14171] Unable to run qt creator application on Device via USB.
• Tests added at http://testplans.meego.com/.
• Test transition is still in progress.
• Review test cases on tl (BMC#12536)
• Formalize bug handling workflow