Yocto Technical Team Minutes, Engineering Sync, for June 16 2020

["Trevor Woerner" <twoerner@gmail.com>]

Yocto Technical Team Minutes, Engineering Sync, for June 16 2020
archive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ly8nyhO14kDNnFcW2QskANXW3ZT7QwKC5wWVDg9dDH4/edit

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== attendees ==
Trevor Woerner, Jan-Simon Möller, Armin Kuster, Alejandro, Richard Purdie,
Stephen Jolly, Steve Sakoman, David Reyna, Mark Morton, Tim Orling,
Scott Murray, Joshua Watt, Vineela, Michael Halstead, Ross Burton, Randy
MacLeod, Daniel Dragomir, Paul Barker, Bruce Ashfield, Jeremy Puhlman, Mark
Asselstine, Peter Kjellerstedt

== notes ==
- 3.1.1 just out of QA, looks good, will go to TSC for release
- 3.2-m1 built shortly (next day or 2)
- still struggling to find maintainers for key components
- kudos to Paul Barker and Joshua Watt for key patches

== general ==
Randy: growth of medium+ is apparent
Steven Jolly: mediums down, medium+ up. perhaps an issue of grading
RP: there’s a natural undulation that corresponds with releases

RP: to Michael: do we have the data going back 10 years?
MH: not for full 10 years
RP: i’d like to get the WDD charts going back as far as possible
see: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html

RP: kudos to Paul and JPEW for stability improvements, some are invasive,
    don’t think we should backport them, however

RP: i see Mark Morton is on, any updates?
MM: should see updates later today
RP: lots of stuff on AB, testing, etc aren’t documented anywhere, these
    changes are to improve these areas
MM: there’s a meeting tomorrow to discuss conversion to Sphinx, kudos to Nico

David R: links are up to yocto devday! lots of good content, good speakers,
    separate from ELC
JPEW: same platform as ELC?
David R: no, we’re just using zoom (professional, holds 500 people)
Scott: using the slide deck as before?
David: yes, we’ll each host our own slides, but i want a master,
    consolidated deck
JPEW: 16x9 slides please?
David: yes, we have to ☺

Randy: maybe we can recruit at devday too (maintainers for key areas)?
RP: if anyone has any other ides, please approach the TSC
JPEW: i like to add a “how to get involved” slide at the end of any
    presentation
RP: should start something on wiki, then it can be used for more than slides
    in presentations
Randy: sometimes it’s difficult for someone to contribute due to lawyers
RP: best to introduce the lawyers from one company (who can’t figure it out)
    to lawyers who have figured it out so they can talk in their own language
Randy: any suggestions?
RP: i’ll poke LF

Paul: “latest activity” on yocto website seems to have stopped updating
    about a month ago (Scott noticed it too)
Michael: i’ll raise it with Tracy and Nico, should be an easy fix