[Linaro-dev] Toolchain WG - 2010-07-05 Meeting notes and activity report for last week

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi there

 I should have sent out such weekly notes much earlier, but it's never
 too late to set it right!  So please find below the minutes from
 today's Toolchain Working Group meeting and the activity reports from
 previous week.

 You can find the full meeting notes at
 https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2010-07-05


== Agenda ==

 * New starter: Michael Hope
 * Action items from last meeting
 * Blueprints status
   * cross-compilers blueprint (hrw)
   * maverick armel toolchain
     * testsuite regressions
     * regression FTBFSes
     * merging Ubuntu patches (low)
 * Proposed release date, next Monday
 * Assigning important package build failures (FTBFSes) in Ubuntu with
   Linaro GCC to Linaro folks
   * MySQL LP #600936
   * Perl  LP #600951
 * Upcoming new mailing-list
 * Conflict with GCC Summit

== Action Items from this Meeting ==

 * Loic and Andrew to extend wiki page to track progress of the merging
   of Ubuntu patches, assignees etc.
 * Loic to setup and run a call on merge workflow with bzr
 * Matthias to sort autotools issues with new cell-4.4 Linaro patch or
   to ask Ulrich for help  :-)
 * Marcin to fix -gcc symlink (LP #600927) and update-alternatives
   installability issue in his public cross-compiler packages

== Action Items from Previous Meeting ==

 * Loic to create wiki page tracking merging of Ubuntu patches starting
   from Andrew's review: DONE (by Andrew)
 * Ulrich to merge the cell-4.4 patch with the Linaro branch: DONE
 * Julian and Andrew to review remaining testsuite failures
 * Loic to check whether we can resolve conflicts between next GCC
   Summit and Linaro Developers Summit
 * Paul Brook to assign himself to the FTBFS bug he is working on
 * Ulrich to pick up the other FTBFS bug
 * Loic to setup gcc-linaro milestone for July release

== Minutes ==

 * New starter from Canonical: Michael Hope; round of introductions
 * Ubuntu patches being reviewed and tested within CodeSourcery
   * Can be merged in Linaro branches right now
   * Loic and Andrew to extend wiki page to track progress of the
     merging
   * Loic, Yao and Andrew to have a bzr call on using the bzr
     review/merge process; Loic to organize; same time tomorrow
     (Tuesday)
 * Loic and Andrew to discuss binutils patches this week with doko
 * Ulrich sent a new cell-4.4 patch on top of the Linaro branch; doesn't
   work for doko due to some autotools issues; Ulrich believes this is
   minor stuff which Matthias will fix
 * Andrew had no time to review the remaining testsuite failures; Julian
   was on leave next week
   * Andrew to review the results when Loic tells him his beagle is up
     again
 * Blueprint status
   * cross-compilers
     * hrw wants to check that everything is merged in the gcc-4.5
       packaging SVN
     * doko working on 4.5.1 merge
     * hrw will fix the regression raised on debian-embedded@
     * plans to rewrite his internal stage patches
     * -gcc symlink LP #600927 is about to be fixed, needs merging in
       packaging SVN
     * update-alternatives issue
   * linaro-m / Ubuntu maverick toolchain blueprint
     * see above for testsuite failures and merging of Ubuntu patches
     * regression FTBFSes
       * Paul Brook looking into at least one of the two failure to
         build issues
         * Andrew to ask pbrook to assign himself to the bug
       * Ulrich to poke the other bug once we know which one that is
 * Initial release
    * Proposed release date: next Monday; next Tuesday is actually best
      to discussthis next Monday; Andrew raises that the perl+mysql bugs
      might be hard, we dont know
    * Release version: 4.x + 2010.07 (month of the release); monthly releases
    * Loic to setup a milestone to track this
 * New mailing-list: new linaro-toolchain public mailing-list on its
   way, stay tuned
 * Conflict with GCC Summit; Loic checked with Mark Mitchell and Kiko
   what we could do about the conflict, not an option to move LDS / UDS,
   GCC Summit date was probably just agreed upon (implies reservations
   were made :-/) so probably not an option to move it either; Mark
   seemed to think it wasn't an issue to send some folks to each summit



 Activity reports from last week:

= Ulrich Weigand =
== GCC ==

 * Resolved merge conflicts between cell-branch.diff and gcc444-linaro.diff

== Education ==

 * Started getting familiar with Debian package build process
 * Started getting familiar with Launchpad infrastructure
 * Started reading ARMv7 Architecture Reference Manual

== Infrastructure ==

 * Set up ARM root filesystem for use under QEMU
 * Investigated options for ARM development hardware

== Admin ==

 * Completed NewStarters tasks
 * Started participating in toolchain WG calls
 * Made travel arrangments for Prague meeting

= Yao Qi =
== Linaro GCC ==

 * Import Ubuntu GCC patches [1] to Linaro GCC 4.4.
   Patches on C/C++/fortran are applied, natively built and tested.
   Check them in internal git repo.

 * Fixing bootstrapping error when ada patches in [1] are applied.
   More ada patches in [1] might be applied.

== Misc ==

 * Set up account on linaro.org, and have an interview meeting with
   Loïc and Andrew.

= Andrew Stubbs =
== CS work plan ==

 * Attended many meetings and wrote many emails, documents, and
   blueprints etc. towards completing the CodeSourcery Work Plan.
  * This has now been agreed, so now we can get on with real work. :)

= Loic Minier =

 * Finished gcc-4.4 + Linaro build on local beagleboard; tried to
 * upgrade to maverick kernels and broke boot in the process; LP #591941
 * Wrote up activity reporting guidelines
   https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Reports
 * Compiled Bzr tips page
   https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BzrTips
 * Interviews with candidates and introductory calls with new starters
 * Toolchain WG planning, CodeSourcery work plan review

    Cheers
-- 
Loïc Minier