[Buildroot] Review of FOSDEM 2014 meeting action points

[Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>]

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> Hello,
> 
> In preparation for the upcoming developers meeting on
> Saturday/Sunday,
> I had a look at all the topics/action points from the FOSDEM 2014
> meeting, and tried to see which ones were implemented, which ones
> were
> not. The idea is to create some discussion around those action
> points,
> and see if anything needs to be done about the remaining one,
> discussed
> this week-end, etc.
> 
>  - BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB refactoring. The point is to clarify
>    BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB, and separate three cases: static only,
>    shared+static, shared only. Thomas P. was supposed to work on
>    this,
>    but nothing happened.
> 
>  - Hashes of download. This has been implemented by Yann, and merged,
>    and more and more packages are gaining hash files.
> 
>  - SystemV/systemd init scripts. The idea was to do automatic
>    installation of init scripts / service files located in
>    package/<foo>/. Maxime Hadjinlian said he would work on this, but
>    not much happened. On a related note, there is a need to separate
>    the skeleton to not avoid Busybox-related init scripts in a pure
>    systemd configuration.
> 
>  - Clarification of the meaning of Acked-by/Reviewed-by tag in the
>    Buildroot manual. I think this has been done by Thomas DS. To be
>    confirmed.
> 
>  - Evaluation of the patch acceptance process. The idea of a
>  statistic
>    of the list of pending patches in patchwork has not been fully
>    implemented: Arnout has proposed a script, but it has never been
>    converted into a cronjob to provide publicly visible statistics.
> 
>    Regarding Thomas P. taking over the commit access when Peter is
>    away, this is happening more and more frequently.
> 
>  - Autouilder wishlist:
> 
>    - Run-time tests. Nothing has been done, since we had no GSoC to
>      make progress on this.
> 
>    - Expand the number of autobuild machines: done, thanks to the
>      autobuild-run script. Nathaniel Roach and Richard Braun are
>      participating to the testing effort, and Peter has added more
>      machines. We now have ~200-230 builds per day, up from ~100
>      builds per day.
> 
>    - Click on a package and see the last failures of that package:
>      this has been implemented.
> 
>    - Expose read-only SQL queries: not done, maybe a bit difficult
>      security wise.
> 
>  - Genimages. No progress has been made on that front.
> 
>  - How to handle the uClibc problem.
> 
>    Recently, we've had less problems caused specifically by uClibc
>    feature patches. And uClibc-ng has appeared, which is giving some
>    hope of improvement.
> 
>  - Website and branding.
> 
>    A new http://buildroot.org has been put online, thanks to the work
>    done by Maxime Hadjinlian.
> 
>  - Google Summer of Code
> 
>    One student (Hadrien Boutteville) participated. Unfortunately, it
>    didn't work very well, and not many patches have been contributed.
> 
>  - Evaluation of BR2_EXTERNAL. Not sure exactly what was needed
>    here. Jeremy Rosen was supposed to submit a patch, but I'm not
>    sure
>    if it happened, or even if something needs to happen.
> 

The patch was more or less deprecated/implemented differently.

buildroot-submodules covers the underlying idea of that particular 
action point : how complete is BR2_EXTERNAL, can we externalize 
everything ? at this point, the answer is definitely yes, so
this can be considered closed


>  - State of major patch sets
> 
>    - Systemd/udev support. Has been merged.
>    - Perl package infra. Has been merged.
>    - SELinux. Still not merged, but not really pushed actively
>      anymore.
>    - libdrm/mesa3d updates. A lot of things happened in this area,
>      with now a clear owner/maintainer of this package (Bernd).
> 
>  - 'target' defconfigs vs. 'development' configs. This was supposed
>    to be an addition to the Buildroot manual, but it never
>    happened. Not sure this is very important.
> 
>  - Python packages: depends vs .select. Conclusion: we change the
>    handling of optional python bindings: instead of selecting them
>    automatically when python is enabled, we add explicit config
>    symbols for them. ThomasDS will update the patches accordingly.
> 
>    Not sure what happened on this topic.
> 
>  - pkgparentdir removal. Has been done.
> 
> Thomas
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