<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello everyone,<br><br></div><div>excuse me for asking, as I have just spent a few years no longer developing for OpenEmbedded (my most active period was 2006-2011 when I started adding Freescale PowerPC devices), only using it occasionally during the 2011-2015.<br></div><div><br>My main question: What is at stake? Are there any upcoming changes?<br></div><div><br></div>my indication is that in a general sense, over the last decade:<br>- the number of users of OE and Yocto has increased rapidly<br>- but the number of developers has not increased. (Yes, new developers come but many previous developers are busy with other stuff).<br></div><div>- the communication has become *much* more fragmented (IRC, FSL i.MX community, wiki per vendor, per-layer mailing lists).<br></div><div><br></div><div>For users:<br><br></div>The users typically ask how to build "image" this-and-that with features this-and-that, with a mix of BSP and other layers (Qt, browser, ...): I think we should write down more quick how-to's based on stable releases that are easily reproducable for a number of popular images.<br></div><div>Although we have a few images, we already have quite a big number of variations through the number of variables (distro, features, board, kernel support, blob compatilities). Subtle integration issues between gstreamer, qt, eglfs, wayland, etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>A very good example of such how-to is: <a href="http://wiki.wandboard.org/Building_Qt5_using_yocto_on_Wandboard" target="_blank">http://wiki.wandboard.org/Building_Qt5_using_yocto_on_Wandboard</a><br></div><div><br></div>For users turning into developers: Lower the threshold to participate. Not sure how.<br></div></div><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div>Leon.<br><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Otavio Salvador <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otavio@ossystems.com.br" target="_blank">otavio@ossystems.com.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
it seems Daiane, Eric and I are the only ones considering the FSL<br>
Community meeting something important. I think there is no need for a<br>
meeting for three people to discuss things that concerns the whole<br>
community. In this case I am cancelling it.<br>
<br>
I consider that the community meeting is the opportunity to discuss<br>
the important technical and social aspects of this community and<br>
influence the direction it takes. I may be wrong though, please let me<br>
know if you prefer the mailing list for this kind of discussion or if<br>
you think it is completely useless.<br>
<br>
Seriously, please expose your point of view.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
<br>
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Otavio Salvador<br>
<<a href="mailto:otavio@ossystems.com.br">otavio@ossystems.com.br</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hello everybody,<br>
><br>
> It has been a long time since we had our last FSL Community BSP<br>
> meeting. We have several development directions to discuss this time.<br>
><br>
> I want to propose the first meeting of 2015 and I would like to hear<br>
> what is the suitable time for the it. I think 15 days ahead is enough.<br>
> What about June 5th at 15:00 UTC?<br>
><br>
> The currently proposed agenda is pasted below:<br>
><br>
> FSL Community BSP Meeting Agenda<br>
><br>
> Status<br>
>Â Â - Fido status<br>
>Â Â Â - libz160 failure<br>
>Â Â Â - What else?<br>
><br>
> Development directions<br>
>Â Â - Upstream<br>
>Â Â - GCC 5 (imx28 / imx53)<br>
>Â Â Â - Removal of linux-imx 2.6.35<br>
>Â Â Â - Removal of gst-fsl-plugins/imx-lib/imx-test/amd<br>
>Â Â - GStreamer 0.10 removal from OE-Core<br>
>Â Â Â - Removal of gst-fsl-plugins<br>
>Â Â - Linux kernel fork for reference boards (maintenance)<br>
><br>
> People time (to review)<br>
>Â Â - Eric Nelson: UTC -7<br>
>Â Â - Trevor Worener: UTC -5<br>
>Â Â - Anthony Felice: UTC -5 - prefer work days<br>
>Â Â - Daiane: UTC -3 - prefer work days<br>
><br>
> --<br>
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