Yocto 1.1 Schedule

Yocto Project 1.1 (release date: October 6, 2011)

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The detailed milestone map for the 1.1 release of Yocto Project is as below.

pre-M1 (March 14 to April 18 -- Feature List and Schedule Defined April 18)

• Features Submitted to web - by April 1st
• Features prioritized and added to schedule - by April 12th

pre-M1 COMPLETED

M1 (Apr 18 to Jun 13 -- Design Complete Apr 25, Dev Complete May 23, Stabilize Complete Jun 6, Release Complete Jun 13)

M1 Design (Apr 18 to Apr 22)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Automatically generate package repos	automatically generate package repositories (and be able to \"use them\" -- to be defined) for both ipk and rpm/zypper combinations; NEEDS MORE DISCUSSION	2	in progress	Team	Saul (Dexuan)	M1, Design - discussion with Richard complete and schedule defined
OE Autobuilder rename		1	may not finish in Design, but in progress	Beth	Beth	M1, Design
Strip out LSB, non-LSB build work	Remove the LSB, non-LSB build work done at the end of 1.0 and re-incorporate it with sstate	1	working with Richard	Beth	Beth	M1, Design

M1 Sprint A (Apr 25 to Apr 29)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
OE-Core	Restructuring, renaming, rebranding	1	Accept	RP Notes	Richard	M1, Sprint A
SDK support in sanity test framework	This task includes enabling unfs and toolchain testing in sanity test framework, enabling toolchain testing on PRC autobuilder	1	Accept	QA	Jiajun/Meilei	M1, Sprint A
User Creation at preinstall - status check	Design status check	1	Accept	RP Notes	Mark (ScottG)	M1, Sprint A
Optimise Configure		2	Accept	RP Notes	Saul (Dongxiao)	M1, Sprint A - Richard writes down his thoughts (Dongxiao determines finish date at this time)
Check SRCREV in recipe files	should work, may need dev	2	Accept	RP Notes	Richard/Ke	M1, Sprint A - planning complete (may evaporate after this)
Refactor BSPs to use topic branches	crownbay and fish river island BSP need to be changed to make use of the new eg20t/emgd/gma500 topic branches	2	Accept	Tom	Tom	M1, Sprint A
Additional config options	The following configurations need to be enabled to support DPDK: glibc > 2.7 (for features related to cpuset), kernel configuration: HPET and HPET MMAP configuration options enabled, all UIO kernel options enabled, HUGETLBFS enabled, PROC_PAGE_MONITOR enabled	1	Accept	Rahul	Tom?	M1, Sprint A
Autobuilder maintenance	Bring scripts into configuration or get git repo working for those that can\'t be brought in. (takes 2 days)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint A
Retrospective	Hold a retrospective to discuss what went well and what can be improved in 1.1	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint A
Overall Project	Host a retrospective to discuss what went well and what can be improved in Yocto 1.0. (questions on this?)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint A

M1 Sprint B (May 2 to May 6)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Layer Tooling - Design	Design/Architect the Layer Tooling approach	1	Accept	Architect	Richard	M1 Sprint B
crazygit fetcher	TI issues with fetch2 - per LCS - should this be a P1?	2	Accept	RP Notes	Saul (Ke)	M1, Sprint B (timescale = 2-3 days)
multi-lib infrastructure	multi-lib support for 32-bit & 64-bit and capable of being installed at the same time - infrastructure in place (bbclass extend and multilib toolchain changes)	1	Accept	from 1.0	Richard (Qing)	M1, Sprint B
Test Plan	Create an overall Test Plan for 1.1 and post on Wiki	1	Accept	Jiajun	Jiajun	M1, Sprint B
Sync qemugl with MeeGo - Status check	This is a status check on how the work to sync qemugl with MeeGo is going. Completion set for M1, Sprint D.	2	Accept	Meta-data	Saul (Edwin)	M1, Sprint B
Finish LSB \"distribution\" work	QT3 work is complete.	2	Accept	Meta-data	WR Distro Team	M1, Sprint B
Incompatible License		2	Accept	Paul	Paul	M1, Sprint B - design and review
Optimize support for Intel hardware features	We need to understand and track each important Intel hardware feature and how it should be optimally supported in the Intel BSPS. Items that immediately come to mind are power, video, and performance counter settings, etc.	1	Accept	Tom	Tom/Darren	M1, Sprint B, C, D
Upgrade EMGD	EMGD needs to be upgraded to the latest version (1.52). A big part of this should also be to make sure everything gets tested and works e.g. 3-d games, video acceleration, etc	2	Accept	Tom	Tom	M1, Sprint B and C
Changes for Image Creator - phase 1	Phase 1: add mechanism to enable selection of server backend at runtime	1	Accept	ADT Team	Jessica	M1, Sprint B
Release Scripts	Create Release Scripts that can be used for both a weekly release and for OCT 2011 release to be run by autobuilder (a week. testing on this may take longer)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint B
build statistics reporting	As someone interested in how long it takes to build different images on different hardware configurations and other assorted build metrics, I would like a web based service, that takes output generated by an extended buildstats.bbclass and stores it, to compare against different machines. The end result should be a way to visualize the collected data. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Buildbot_Autobuilder_Discussions		Accept	eflanagan/Jay7/ka6sox	Beth/Jay	M1, Sprint B and C (or two weeks in here)
Fast boot analysis	Perform analysis to determine how best to implement a 2 second boot time	1	Accept	Darren	Darren	M1, Sprint B

M1 Sprint C (May 9 to May 13)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
multi-lib RPM	RPM support for multilib added	1	Accept	from 1.0	Richard (Qing)	M1, Sprint C
Package config option enhancement - Plan	Plan our approach to package config option enhancement	2	Accept	from 1.0	Richard	M1, Sprint C
Upstream our patches - phase 1	Have upstream status updated on 90% of patches (so that we can have a status update)	1	Accept	Meta-data	Saul	M1, Sprint C
3G - Design	We have an ofono recipe but need some integration work done. This milestone is a status check and design update. HW needs to be received at this time.	2	Accept	Meta-data	Saul (Dongxiao)	M1, Sprint C Need hardware and infrastructure to test 3G (MeeGo team has this)
Package reporting system enhancement		2	Accept	Meta-data	Saul (Lei)	M1, Sprint C or D (need additional definition of this item)
User Creation at preinstall - complete	Deliverable completed	1	Accept	RP Notes	Mark (ScottG)	M1, Sprint C
Upgrade to gcc 4.6	Need to upgrade toolchain to gcc 4.6	1	Accept	Nitin	Nitin	M1, Sprint C or D
License tracking	Get common licenses for all packages and consolidate base file licenses. (takes ~3 days)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint C
Audotbuilder infrastructure	Bring up additional autobuilders and work with sysadmin to configure.	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint C (dependent on us having a system admin)
kernel port to 2.6.37	Port the kernel to 2.6.37	1	Accept	Darren	Darren	M1, Sprint C
Tracing: Add Systemtap support for userspace tracing	Add utrace, etc	2	Accept	Tom	Tom	M1, Sprint C

M1 Sprint D (May 16 to May 20)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
multi-lib complete	multi-lib support for 32-bit & 64-bit and capable of being installed at the same time fully complete	1	Accept	from 1.0	Richard (Qing)	M1, Sprint D
Image Creator - 1.0 finish	finish the Image Creator to add features pushed out from 1.0 - See https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/BitBake/GUI/PostOneOh for details	1	Accept	from 1.0	Josh	M1 Sprint D
Sync qemugl with MeeGo - COMPLETE	sync qemugl with MeeGo is complete	2	Accept	Meta-data	Saul (Edwin)	M1, Sprint D
Finish LSB \"distribution\" work	Merge patches which are pushed during yocto 1.0. Add packages(qt3,xdg-* ...) LSB Test Suite need. Hardware platform x86, x86-64 and ppc32(if qt4 can be supported) can be finished.	2	Accept	Meta-data	WR Distro Team	M1, Sprint D
OE Comparison	Compare Yocto core set against integration work in OE and other distributions looking for bug fixes, (relevant) feature enhancements, and integration/policy hints.	1	Accept	Meta-data	Mark	M1, Sprint D
End of package revision	replace with a network service	2	Accept	RP Notes	Jessica	M1, Sprint D
x32 - plan	layer to support toolchain, libc, and kernel - Plan created	2	Accept	RP Notes	Saul (Nitin)	M1, Sprint D
BBXM	Pull in bits from OE (kernel and uboot)	1	Accept	Darren	Darren	M1, Sprint D
Eclipse-native tools interface	More integrated with upstream once there\'s integrated Linux tools that meets our need, e.g. lttng-remote	2	Accept	ADT Team	Jessica	M1, Sprint D
Changes for Image Creator - phase 2	Phase 2: Bug fix for 7.70	1	Accept	ADT Team	Jessica	M1, Sprint D
License tracking	Build a parser to do license tracking more gracefully and make sure all recipes are correct. (takes ~2 weeks)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth	M1, Sprint D
Tracing: perf trace scripting support	Basically this means allowing perf to be built with the Perl and Python bindings, which turned out to be a headache last time.	2	Accept	from 1.0	Tom	M1, Sprint D

M1 Stabilize (May 23 to June 3)

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Owner	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Be prepared for Distro upgrades	Our release is right around the time of the 6monthly distro release dates, we should accommodate for this in our testing plan	2	Accept	Joshua	Jiajun	check latest distribution in M1 Stabilize, M2 Stabilize, and M3 Stabilize and test them in milestone testing; Should we include more Distributions, besides fedora, ubuntu and opensuse?
Test Execution Plan	Create a Test Execution Plan for the milestone and send to developers	1	Accept	Jiajun	Jiajun	M1 Stabilize; M2 Stabilize; M3 Stabilize
Development complete	All bugs targeted for 1.0.1 are in the 1.0.1 build.	1	Accept	Team	All	M1, Sprint3 to M1, Stabilize

Stabilize schedule

Week 1

• Day 1, 2: Weekly test pass
• Day 3: Pre-Release Readiness meeting
• If there are issues:
  • Day 4, 5: Fix issues and repeat Week 1
• If there are not issues:
  • Day 4, 5 and beginning of Week 2: Complete a full test pass

Week 2

• Day 1, 2, 3: Complete full test pass
• Day 4: Release Readiness meeting
• If there are issues, fix and repeat from Week 1
• If there are not issues, proceed to Release phase

M1 Release (June 6 to June 13)

Follow Release Checklist, which includes:

• Release is packaged
• Release is pushed to mirrors
• Release is announced to community via mailing lists and blog

M2 (May 30 to Jul 25 -- Design Complete Jun 6, Dev Complete Jul 4, Stabilize Complete Jul 18, Release Complete Jul 25)

* NOTE:  This section and sections below are not yet complete

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
1.0 Carryover	Image Creator (II)	finish the Image Creator to add polish and community requested features	1	Accept	Joshua + Jessica	1.0 Carryover
Architecture	Layer Tooling	This includes the architectural work plus implementing the changes	1	Review	Richard	Architect
Meta-data	Upstream our patches	Placeholder for time for the team to upstream patches	1	Accept	Saul	Meta-Data Team
Meta-data	Error handling in bitbake	add additional error handling to bitbake (check bugzilla for existing error handling and warning bugs)	1	Accept	Saul (ScottG)	Architect
ADT	Changes for Image Creator	Eclipse changes pending Image Creator	1	Review	Jessica	ADT Team
ADT	Secure login	Eclipse changes pending Image Creator	2	Review	Jessica	ADT Team	This need to work with CDT & TCF community, so may beyond our 1.1 release cycle, but the work will get started in M2 - MX
BSP	Tutorials	Create tutorials and documentation on how to create a BSP	1	Accept	Tom, Scott	Team
Kernel	Fast Boot Time	2 second boot time target	1	Accept	Darren	Team
Build	Meta-Targets	Part of the challenge of autobuilder is that you have to go into autobuilder, edit script, reconfigure, to change just one build target. This is error prone. What we need is a meta-target where Beth can say she wants to build Poky-image-sato for QEMU x86 and have it just do that. Beth thinks this is done via an override to the web page. (takes ~2 weeks)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Build	License tracking	Build a parser to do license tracking more gracefully and make sure all recipes are correct. (takes ~2 weeks)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Build	Autobuilder Infrastructure	Bring up additional autobuilders and work with sysadmin to configure. (2 days per machine for OS. 1 hour for ab setup)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Misc	adding eglibc config control	this goes with the package config options	1.5	Accept	Mark	Architect
Misc	Directory Ownership		1.5	Accept	Mark (Qing)	Architect	a bit concerned this will take longer then expected
Project	Release Readiness	Release Readiness Meeting	1	Jul-18	Julie	Julie
BSPs	BSP update/intro	determine and integrate / create arch reference BSPs (e500, Cortex, ARM, MIPs)	2	Review	Bruce/Richard/team	Bruce
kernel	BSP config cleanup	BSP config cleanup/refactoring. Update to new kernel rev. Investigate Kconfig alignment	1	Review	Bruce	Bruce
kernel	inter-core comms	investigate/report/merge intercore communication methods (mcapi, dsplink,etc). extend as appropriate	2	Review	Bruce	Bruce
QA	Test Execution Plan	Create a Test Execution Plan with specific Test Cases	1	Accept - June 27	Jiajun	Jiajun

M3 (Jul 11 to Aug 15 -- Design Complete Jul 18, Dev Complete Jul 25, Stabilize Complete Aug 8, Release Complete Aug 15)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Build	Release Scripts	Create Release Scripts for OCT 2011 release (one week)	1	Review	Beth	Beth
Project	Release Readiness	Release Readiness Meeting	1	Aug-8	Julie	Julie
Alpha	Alpha Program	Participants determined - Aug 1; Program - Aug 8-22; Feedback available - Aug 25	1	Accept	Julie	Julie
kernel	usecases	BSP config streamlining, building the kernel standalone, yoctoization, meta data sharing	1	Review	Bruce	Bruce
ADT	Eclipse plug-in upgrate to Indigo	Update yocto plug-in to Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)	1	Review	Jessica	ADT Team
ADT	Eclipse plug-in Systemtap support	Make it easy and convenient for the user to write and execute Systemtap scripts from the IDE.	2	Review	Jessica	Tom
ADT	Eclipse plug-in "perf scription" support	Make it easy and convenient for the user to write and execute 'perf scripts' from the IDE.	2	Review	Jessica	Tom
ADT	Enhance the deploy in remote debug	Make it easy and convenient for the user to write and execute 'perf scripts' from the IDE.	2	Review	Jessica	Lianhao
ADT	More test cases about toolchain in autobuilder	Add the test projects that ADT team has been using for testing toolchain into autobuilder automated testing	2	Review	Jessica	Liping
QA	Test Execution Plan	Create a Test Execution Plan with specific Test Cases	1	Accept - Jul 18	Jiajun	Jiajun

M4 (Aug 15 to Oct 6 -- Stabilize Complete Aug 29, Release Complete Oct 3)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Project	Release Candidate 1	RC1 generated	1	Aug-29	Beth	Team
Project	Release Candidate 2	RC2 generated	1	Sep-5	Beth	Team
Project	Release Candidate 3	RC3 generated	1	Sep-12	Beth	Team
Project	Release Candidate 4	RC4 generated	1	Sep-19	Beth	Team
Project	Release Readiness	Release Readiness Meeting	1	Sep-26	Julie	Julie
QA	Holiday	QA team on holiday Oct 1 - 7	1	Oct 1-7	QA	QA