[cip-dev] Codethink report weeks 14 - 17

[agustin.benito@codethink.co.uk (Agustín Benito Bethencourt)]

Hi,

several interesting accomplishments these past weeks. Here is the report about 
Codethink's activities at CIP.

## CIP kernel maintenance

* New CIP kernel released: 4.4.126-cip22

* Kernel configurations are now collected in Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel/cip-kernel-config
** Moxa's kernel configuration evaluation pending.

* New cip-kernel sub-directory created in gitlab for kernel related repos: 
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel

* Moxa developers on-boarding process to the CIP kernel maintenance team has 
started. 
** Moxa developers can review patches having Ben H. as mentor through the cip-
dev mailing list.  

## CIP kernel testing

* B at D now fully supports Renesas board #167
** There are no dependencies related with bitbake/YOCTO
** Set up description sent to Renesas asking for confirmation.
** Link: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/167
** User's documentation pending.

* Tests reports sent to cip-testing-results now include the new board support.

* Vagrant updated in B at D 

## Other topics

* Now the developers involved in kernel work are meeting weekly through IRC in 
the chat.freenode.net/#cip channel on Thursdays for 30 min.
** Yesterday's meeting log: https://irclogs.baserock.org/cip/%23cip.
2018-04-26.log.html#t2018-04-26T09:02:24

* Ben H. has participated in several discussions and questions through 
different CIP channels related with Debian LTS, since he is part of that 
effort at the Debian project.

* Ben H. and Agustin participated in the discussion that J. Colbert's article 
at LWN.net has generated: https://lwn.net/Articles/749530/

* Talk related with the CIP kernel process approved by the OSSJ 2018 content 
committee: https://ossalsjp19.sched.com/event/EaYy/in-need-for-a-linux-kernel-maintained-for-a-very-long-time-cip-kernel-maintenance-overview-agustin-benito-bethencourt-codethink-ltd?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no

* Introductory talk about CIP at the OpenSouthCode (Open Source event in 
Malaga, Spain) approved: https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/
opensouthcode2018/program/proposals/119

Best Regards
-- 
Agust?n Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant
Codethink Ltd