Yocto 1.0 Schedule

v1.0 (release date: Apr 15, 2011)

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The detailed milestone map for v1.0 is as below. During the first week of each subsequent milestone past M1 we will have a demonstration of the previous milestone capabilities as well as a planning and design session for the current milestone.

M2 (Nov 08 to Dec 24 -- Dev Complete Dec 10, Stabilize Complete Dec 17, Release Complete Dec 24)

Sprint A (closes Nov 12, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	Kernel interactive targets	To support incremental kernel development having the ability to run menuconfig (or xconfig, etc) directly is a common request. We'll need to add this for commercialization anyway. i.e. bitbake -c menuconfig. This fuctionality already exists.	1	Done	Richard	bruceashfield	Enhancement
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Upgrades Planned (Phase 1)	Complete plan for package upgrades in M2	1	Done	Saul		Continual Maintenance
Validation	Runtime testing	Runtime testing of images as part of the autobuilder	1	Done	Jiajun/ScottG	rpurdie	project commitment
	Poky Image Creator Wireframe/Interaction Plans Complete		1	Done	Josh
	SDK Generator Interaction: Plans Complete		1	Done	Jessica
	Tracing/Profiling Planning Complete	This needs to cover where we're at now, what we're missing and also propose the future enhancements that may be needed. M2 targets getting existing tools integrated and documented. F2f discussion n the future enhancements		Done	Tom
	Swabber. (Still needs to be integrated into weekly build by default)		1	Done	Josh
Build/Release	Release process documentation			Done	Beth
Validation	Test plan for v1.0 (to address any deficiencies in coverage from v0.9)		1	Done	Jiajun

Sprint B (closes Nov 19, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: World Packages	Audit world packages making sure it all build, making sure all are packages are required	2	Done	Saul	sgw	Hygiene
Tool Development and SDK Features	SDK Generator Installer UI	Look at different ways of Installer UI (GTK+ and ncurses) seems none of them is the right choice, decide to go with script to implement all the functionalities of installer and later add UI part on top of it	1	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	Customize sysroot setup	Add and test out "--sysroot" config option to cross compiler within Eclipse IDE	1	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	SDK Generator Installer design revision	Close all open questions regarding Yocto SDK Generator Installer function design and come up HLD	1	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Distribution / components	kernel version	keeping 2.6.34 as a -stable kernel is the best option. I've also got a newer -devel tree that can be made available or made the default.	3	Done	Bruce	bruceashfield	enhancement
	assign Yocto Project PM	acquire and assign a program manager for Yocto Project		Done	DaveST
	assign Yocto Project Sys Admin			Done	Saul
Tool Development and SDK Features	oprofileUI	Fixing various bugs of the oprofileUI to make it workable on big endian host.(i.e. ppc, mips)	2	Done	Jessica	lianhao.lu	Bug #382 / Bug #493
Poky Feature	SDK Version Control	If we can expect that yocto SDK has lots of release in the future, we might need to consider SDK version control. Currently, every thing installed under /opt/poky which leads to things be overriden, we need to be able to use a scheme like /opt/poky-1.0, /opt/poky-2.0 to distiguish things.	2	Done	Josh	jzhang	Enhancement
Kernel	Kernel plan complete	Flesh our kernel deliverables and add to Yocto 1.0 schedule		Done	Darren	dvhart

Sprint C (closes Nov 26, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed) :: NOTE: this is US Thanksgiving week

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Licence Checksums	licence checksums	1	Done	Saul	rpurdie	Hygiene
Poky Features	Performance Analysis Completed	"I'd like someone to instrument a green release build, see where it spends time (hot/cold parsing time, individual task building time) and then compare this with our 0.9 release build. I'd also like to compare the disk usage between the two. Once we have a blame list we can then set about fixing it. Some things I know will come up: a) pseudo, b) checksums/signature code, c) exec() vs fork for executing tasks, d) task based prebuilds increasing disk usage, e) rpm dependency calculations, f) using rpm vs. ipk but I may be wrong and there may be others. We need numbers. "	1	Done	Saul / Qing, Dongxiao	rpurdie	Enhancement
Poky Features	environment variables for kernel builds	switching a branch, or adding a configuration feature (and even changing the kernel repo) is often done during development of a BSP. Having some additional variables that are pass the bitbake environment scrub would be useful. i.e. KBRANCH=foo bitbake -c configure linux-yocto. This goes along with the other BSP bootstrapping suggestions.	2	Done	Bruce	bruceashfield	Enhancement
Supported Targets	ARM Platform Support	Replace beagleboard with Beagleboard XM - decision	2	Done	Bruce	alex	Basic Yocto hardware support
Distribution / components	Security Process	We need a dedicated person to scan and apply critical security updates to the distro. The MeeGo team already has a similar process with some scripts which may be leveraged. To complete the task, the process should be documented and a first pass over the metadata made to establish the current position on security. Any upgrades needed should be identified and a plan to address them should be in place but doesn't have to be implemented by this point.	1	Done	ScottG	ktian1	enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	SDK Generator Installer Opkg repo design	Come up a opkg repo design that will mimic the final Yocto package repo layout to be used by SDK Generator Installer to test against	2	Done	Jessica	jzhang
Tool Development and SDK Features	Yocto Installer tar creaion	Create a Yocto Installer tar ball which contains Installer script and supported opkg component that will be used for installing other Yocto components	2	Done	Jessica	jzhang
Documentation	Kernel Framework Paper from WR	The paper from WR needs to be re-written and then posted somewhere on the Yocto Project site. This will involve examiniation of the text and re-writing and formatting for presentation. Currently it is simply a text document. Completion time assuming uninterrupted time is one week.	High	Done	Scott Rifenbark	1 Week	Documentation
Documentation	Poky Reference Manual	This guide exists in the 0.9 form. The re-write of the text needs to be completed. So far, all the chapters have been rewritten but not re-posted on the site. Only the appendices remain for a text scrub. Time to complete this would be a week of uninterrupted time. Ideally, the manual would be a sub-manual that would be referenced and architected into the Yocto Project Development Guide.	Medium	Done	Scott Rifenbark	1 Week	Documentation
Kernel	Initial meta-linaro layer	meta-linaro layer providing a kernel, tool-chain, and uboot loader. This deliverable is primarily to get the infrastructure in place and have a buildable kernel. Toolchain on best effort basis.		Done	Darren	dvhart	Moderate risk of slippage due to holidays.
Kernel	Tracing: blktrace and sysprof recipes			Done	Tom	dvhart

Sprint D (closes Dec 3, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed) :: NOTE: week of the F2F planning meeting

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Kernel	Kernel git branching structure revamped		1	Done	Bruce	dvhart
Kernel	Tunnel Creek (Crown Bay)		1	Done	Tom	dvhart

Sprint E (closes Dec 9 (THURSDAY), 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Upgrades Completed (Phase 1)	Update to new versions as per the agreed plan for M2 from Sprint A	1	Done	Saul	rpurdie	Continual Maintenance
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Src Checksums	Make sure all SRC_URI components have checksums too	1	Done	Saul	rpurdie	Hygiene
Poky Features	enable KVM with qemu	today all new Intel processors support VT, which are enabled on most desktop machines which are most frequently used build machine. with VT support, x86/x86-64 qemu target runs faster which is a good thing for emulation environment. This may require some qemu option tweaks and also poky-qemu script enhancement.	2	Done	Saul / Edwin	ktian1	Enhancement
Kernel	New kernel recipes	dev, -devel, -custom	3	Done	Bruce	dvhart
Swabber	Documentation for swabber		1	Done	Alex
CCB	Defect triage process in public documented and implemented		1	Done. Triage process is documented, out for review.	Saul

M3 (Dec 20 to Feb 08 -- Dev Complete Feb 04, Stabilize Complete Feb 11, Release Complete Feb 18)

Sprint A (closes Dec 24, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Kernel	Initial meta-rt layer	PREEMPT_RT kernel and related test-cases and benchmarks	2	Done	Darren	dvhart	slipped out from M2
Poky Features	Fetcher Overhaul Phase 1 - SRC_REV enhancement	a) Add code in FetchData::__init__() which will check if the selected fetcher supports srcrev and the automatically call a function to set the src rev value instead of each fetcher doing this.\n e) Break SRCREVINACTION deadlock. To do this, we need to start using a keyword for automatically increasing SRCREV, e.g. SRCREV = "AUTOINC". The actual revision can be injected into PV using SRCPV. If we do this there should no longer be a need of the deadlock; k) Ensure that we only set __BB_DONT_CACHE when SRCREV = "AUTOREV". This may need a new method call for fetchers to tell whether they're "floating" or locked down.	1	Done	Saul / Ke, RP	rpurdie	Enhancement, slipped out from M2
Distribution / components	Distro Audit Upgrades Planned (Phase 2)	Complete plan for package upgrades in M2	1	Done	Saul		Continual Maintenance
Poky Features	Pseudo Performance	Implement the changes to bitbake based on pseudo's enable/disable switch	1	done	Saul / Qing, Dongxiao	rpurdie	Enhancement, slipped from M2 due to risk and not having Pseudo's change yet.
Tool Development and SDK Features	Fix the issue user target sysroot is owned by root	The ADT installer will use pseudo to extract user target sysroot which ended up owned by root, this need to be fixed	1	done	Jessica	jzhang	Cleanup
Tool Development and SDK Features	Eclipse poky tree interfacing (metadata file editor)	Provide a metadata file editor with some syntax checking and keywords highlight capabilities	2	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	IDE Project templates	Templates for various project types: Clutter GUI, Gtk+ GUI, to help developers get started quickly	2	Done	Jessica	josh	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	push TCF/RSE patches upstream	work with community to finish up our TCF terminal service, TCF/RSE integration remaining patches taken by upstream. Blocking issues including Eclipse Bug #327865	1	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Pseudo	Pseudo enhancement to enable on/off switch		1	done	Mark
Pseudo	Bitbake enhancement for pseudo on/off switch		1	done	Richard
bugzilla	Complete restructure of bugzilla categories		1	done	Saul
Poky Features	Image creator ground work	Nomenclature determined, existing gui's bug fixed and backend work implemented	1	Done	Joshua
Kernel	Tracing: Initial SystemTap recipe	Works on x86	3	Done	Tom	dvhart
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Package Description/Summary completed	Ensure DESCRIPTION/SUMMARY fields are all audited	2	Done	Mark	Mark	Hygiene, was M2, Sprint B but missed window
Distribution / components	Zypper/RPM	Small write-up of the problems we're having w/ Zypper and what we plan to do. (i.e. create a roadmap/design) - Includes rootfs generation - Package uprev/install/removal	1	Done	Mark/Qing		was M2, Sprint B
Distribution / components	Distro Audit: Licence Checksums	Make the licence checksums fatal if not present	1	Done	Saul	rpurdie	Hygiene, was M2, Sprint C
Distribution / components	push of all relevant Wind River patchs to Yocto (patch comparison)	Ensure patches present to packages in WRS are also in Poky	1	Done	Mark	Mark	was M2, Sprint C
Poky Features	Performance Enhancement Completed	Initial changes to reduce disk space (sstate-build-*)	1	Done	Saul / Qing, Dongxiao	rpurdie	Enhancement, was M2, Sprint E
Distribution / components	User specified qemu config support	We'll provide user an edit box which allows advanced qemu user to specify arbitrary qemu configuration to meet their needs, which the poky-qemu scrip will just append the config list towards the end of the list of parameters to bring up qemu, it also expect the poky-qemu script to do some basic sanity check on the user specifications to catch the obvious mistake	2	Done	Saul / criping	criping	enhancement, was M2, Sprint E
Tool Development and SDK Features	SDK Version Control support in SDK generator installer	If we can expect that yocto SDK has lots of release in the future, we might need to consider SDK version control. Currently, if we un-tar the sdk, it will override the older version. It's not good for app developers since they might need the old version to do something. And also, maybe a finer installer than untar is preferred. Installer will tied to certain SDK version and the installation will go under /opt/poky-versionNo.	1	Done	Jessica	criping	Enhancement-expect planning process by Jessica to handle this task. Was M2, Sprint E.

Sprint B (closes Jan 07, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	Bitbake multi-threaded parsing	Bitbake recipe parsing is currently single threaded. I want to make this multithreaded as the speedup would be nice. If I can only take a single task for myself for 1.0, I'm nominating this one as I enjoy this kind of thing and I have ideas on how to do it.	1	Done	Richard	rpurdie	Enhancement
Distribution / components	Lock in Kernel/Toolchain version	Locked in 2.6.37 and gcc 4.5.1. Pending decision to move to 4.5.2 and Linaro		Done		Richard
Distribution / components	License Update	For each of the licences we support, I'd really like to have a licences directory with a copy of that license contained within. When it comes to deciding what a given LICENSE field means, this would be the reference. It also means we can include the licences a given image includes with the image. This continues to make our license handling world class and ahead of the field.	2	Done	Beth	rpurdie	Hygiene
Tool Development and SDK Features	Qemu configuration change	Provice edit box for advanced user to specify qemu configurations	2	Done	Jessica	criping
Tool Development and SDK Features	Lock down Eclipse+CDT+TCF version	Will use Eclipse Halo 3.6	1	Done	Jessica
Demo	Finalize on demo plans for v1.0 launch		1	Done	Dave
Release	Release plans for v1.0 launch	Fill out the M4 plan with the necessary release activities and timings	1	Done	Beth
Poky Features	Basic image creator GUI	Functional UI missing some Advanced features	1	In replan	Joshua
Tool Development and SDK Features	Yocto Installer for SDK Generator Installation functions support	Detailed feature request can be found at: http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589	1	Done	Jessica	rpurdie	Enhancement
Kernel	Tracing: trace-cmd python binding cleanup		3	Done	Darren	dvhart

Sprint C (closes Jan 14, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	kernel development layer	The (correct) poky behaviour of building known revisions coupled with the fetcher requiring a BSP branch to already be present means that local modifications (and kernel source tree) are required for kernel development. I already have a layer that overrides/modifies the behaviour when added to the bblayers.conf and configured into an environment. This seems useful for more people to use.	2	Done	Bruce	bruceashfield	Enhancement, was M2, Sprint C
Distribution / components	Zypper/RPM	RPM Up-rev / Zypper Up-rev [lets get to the latest versions]	1	Done	Mark/Qing		was M2, Sprint C
Supported Targets	Intel Platform Support	JasperForest	2	Basic support in place; DPDK evaluation in process, overall BSP plan still TBD	Tom	davest	Basic ECG support (Moved from Sprint A)
Tool Development and SDK Features	Eclipse poky tree interfacing (git support)	Use Eclipse git capability to install poky tree from git repo and able to interact with git repo at file level within Poky tree	2	Done	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Poky Features	Poky Image Creator	A standalone application you can run which asks you to select a distro and machine, then presents a list of packages you can select. Once the selection is made, it goes off and bakes you an image which is then presented to you. Implementation wise, it should use the sstate packages, be a bitbake UI and use the usual poky bbclass files to do the image construction behind the scenes.	1	Re-plan	Joshua	rpurdie	Enhancement
Distribution / components	LSB Sanity	execute LSB Test and improve passing rate and document failures with clear understanding	2	Done	MarkH/Saul	sgw	Hygiene
Tool Development and SDK Features	Image creator integration with Eclipse		2	replan	Jessica	jzhang	Enhancement
Kernel	Tracing: perf trace marker support	This is from feedback to the new trace command. Ingo appears to have this nearly complete already.	3	Done	Darren	dvhart
Cleanup	bitbake user experience error handling validation completed		2	Done	Richard
Cleanup	variable scrub - ensure all metadata variables are documented	Script with a histogram of variable use done, identified 50 variables to document; Add task for actual documentation update is low on the list	2	Done	Scott/Darren
Kernel	Tracing: package kernelshark		3	Done	Darren	dvhart

Sprint D (closes Jan 21, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	Fetcher Overhaul Phase 2 - API reorg	f) Add a generic unpack funciton to __init__.py based on the unpack task in Poky ; g) Split go() methods into the following steps: i) download() - do whatever transfer is necessary to get the sources locally ii) build_mirror_data() - generate any data that would be needed to construct a source mirror iii) unpack() - takes a directory as an argument of where to place extracted sources; The existing go() methods should be replaced with a set of calls to the above sections of functionality as appropriate in the individual fetchers. Some of these categories of function make no sense in certain fetchers, in which case they shouldn't need to implement them. Functions are only executed if the method is present. h) Change Poky's unpack to call an unpack method in the fetchers. i) Change Poky's fetch task to call a "download" method in the fetcher instead of go().	1	Done	Saul / Ke, RP	rpurdie	Enhancement
Poky Features	Fetcher Overhaul Phase 3 - git enhancement	j) Optimize git fetcher for the new layout so for a git checkout, we clone the repository in download(), then unpack just does a clone with references to the original repo. k) Ensure that we only set __BB_DONT_CACHE when SRCREV = "AUTOREV". This may need a new method call for fetchers to tell whether they're "floating" or locked down. l) Add a new "BB_NO_NETWORK" variable which the fetchers check before peforming an operation which hits anything remote. This means adding in error messages about why network access is needed at various points (e.g. SRCREV = "AUTOREV" for a given recipe) m) Add multiple branch/srcrev support for git fetcher. These would be of the form: git://somelocation/somerepo.git;name=ref1;branch=foo;name=ref2;branch=bar SRCREV_ref1 = "hash1" SRCREV_ref2 = "hash2" which would ensure both hash1 and hash2 were in the final repo. n) Change git fetcher to default to git protocol instead of rsync	1	Done	Saul / Ke, RP	rpurdie	Enhancement
Poky Features	DSO linking changes	"By the default the gcc linker will automatically link any dependant objects/libraries. ""Inherited"" linkages can cause issues, for example, where a shared object changes its dependencies but a program has come to rely on symbols from an implicitly linked library. Fedora implemented this change in F13, seems like it would be useful to have in Poky too. "	2	Done	Saul / Nitin	josh	bug#516
Poky Features	libtool sysroot option	libtool 2.4 has a sysroot option. We should try and use it, see how it works and whether we can ditch some of our libtool hacks.	1	Done	Saul / ScottG	rpurdie	Enhancement
Distribution / components	MACHINE or Recipe specific sysroots	Each machine should have its own sysroot. We'll probably have to split do_populate_sysroot into a two step process, creation of the package and than installtion of the package, which the installation of the package being made machine specific (put ${MACHINE} into ${STAMP} and bitbake should do that). Also allowing this to work per recipe would be desireable	1	Done	Saul / Dongxiao	rpurdie	Hygiene
Distribution / components	Toolchain Bootstrap Process	The toolchain as it bootstraps overwrites files like libc.so and libgcc.so in the sysroot directory which causes issues if you just try and rebuild part of the toolchain. Each step of the bootstrap process should use a separate sysroot. Once this is once, sstate file overwriting detection can be added and enabled.	1	Done	Saul / Dexuan	rpurdie	Hygiene
Distribution / components	Add headers and libraries to qemu images	Since we'll be using qemu images as target sysroot, need to create a set of qemu images for minimal, sato, LSB that contains target header and libraries.	2	Done	Saul	jzhang	Enhancement
Distribution / components	push of all relevant Wind River patchs to Yocto (patch comparison)	Update any additional patches needed since M2.	1	Done	Mark	Mark

Sprint E (closes Jan 28, 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed)

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Distribution / components	rootless X	rootless x server has better security than x server launched by root. MeeGo already enable this feature. it would be nice for Yocto to also enable it.	2	Feb 18th	Saul / Ke	yuke	enhancement
Distribution / components	perl upgrade	perl is the most cross un-friendly recipe pending upgrade.	2	Done	Nitin	Nitin Kamble	enhancement
Supported Targets	Intel Platform Support	Sandybridge	2	Accept	Tom	davest	Basic ECG support
Distribution / components	performance indicators	define some indicators (boot time, footprint, build time, power, component benchmarks, etc.) and then collect them for tracking purpose. The result could be posted on the wiki site, and the initial indicators can be easy ones which can be easily retrieved from autobuilder or weekly qa report). This way we have a clear track about the healthy of the Yocto project, and also identify weak areas. We can include qemu targets and several representational boards as the targets.	2	Feb 11th	Beth/Jiajun	ktian1	enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	SDK user workshop	Have some developers sit down and use our tools to develop demo software for Yocto.	2	End of February	Jessica	josh	Enhancement
Kernel	Final linux-yocto_git.bb	With 2.6.37 kernel	1	Done	Bruce	dvhart
Kernel	Final meta-linaro layer		1	day-for-day slip		Darren	dvhart
Kernel	Sandy Bridge		1		Tom	dvhart

Sprint F (closes Feb 03 (THURSDAY), 11:59pm PDT -- pull request sent, initially reviewed) :: NOTE: China New Year Holiday

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Documentation	ADT Reference Guide Draft out for review	Outline complete	High	WIP	Scott Rifenbark	jzhang	Documentation

M4 (Feb 07 to Apr 15 -- Stabilize Complete Mar 18, Release Complete Apr 01, Contingency to Apr 15)

This sprint is the Yocto Project v. 1.0 Release Cycle.

During this sprint, we will track the Yocto Project v1.0 Release Criteria.

Final Project Features and Activities

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Validation	Boottime/Performance Analysis	Compare Yocto Project performance to other projects such as MeeGo	1	Initial report on where we are by Feb 9	Darren	davest	project commitment
	Multilib Support	Consider developing post-1.0 branch	1	to start in M4	Richard
Validation	Alpha testing complete	4-5 internal developers unfamiliar with Yocto Project try to do a build and report on the experience and issues encountered	1	Done by Feb 18	Julie	davest

Documentation Deliverables

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Documentation	Migration chapter in the Poky Reference Manual	This chapter would cover the four identified use-cases for migrating up to the most recent version of Yocto Project. Additionally, it would cover migration scenarios from other development systems. The chapter does not yet exist. The chapter has not been scoped outside of having a meeting that identified four use-cases that did not include migration from a development system outside of Yocto Project. It will take some more scoping time to cover those areas (a day or two). Again, I have no idea of the length. See earlier entries for standard industry writing estimates for software documentation	Medium	Not Started	Scott Rifenbark	3-4 Weeks	Documentation
Documentation	Yocto Project Development Guide	This manual would be an over-arching document that frames the complete development cycle within Yocto Project. The idea here is that the document would be an umbrella document that spawned and referenced subsequent documents. The organization would be the first chapter overviewing the major development pieces such as recipe creation, building, debugging, publishing, fail-safing, back-door hook creation, etc. Scoping would be about two weeks and length would probably be about 40 pages. Overall development time would likely be a month of uniterruped time.	Medium	Not Started	Scott Rifenbark	3 Weeks	Documentation

Features needed and to be put into sprints by assigned owners:

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	package config option enhancement	there're several enhancements we may do here: * allow users setting specific config options (local or global) from external tool, such as poky image creator, instead of changing recipes manually. Need a mechanism to convert from variable assignments into exact config options (e.g. feature_${PN} = ""1"" -> ""--enable-feature""). Consequently dependency chain needs update with option status. * host contamination check. We have swabber to check host contamination, but I'm not sure whether it covers configuration phase. If not, this is one area to improve, as not ususually we see configure script checks host bits for available features * conditional option manipulation. In many recipes we enable/disable one option based on availability of other packages. Now this is done manually and not flexible. this should be made automatically though some new annotation to indicate condition, or just base_contains (not convenient: long line, need define distro features)	2	Review	Richard/MarkH	ktian1	Enhancement
Media	Yocto Project Awareness Video	This 2.5 minute video would introduce and describe the benefits of Yocto Project. The video would use entertaining animations that described concepts and benefits. The result would be suitable for YouTube, conferences, and the website. The production is called an "Epipheo" and will be created by Epipheo Studios. The engagement process has begun and the kick-off meeting will be soon. The PO is in place. Time for development is 10 weeks.	High	Kick-off Imminent	Scott Rifenbark	10 Weeks	Media
Documentation	Yocto Project Debugging Guide	This would be a guide for the debugging and bug tracking process in Yocto Project. Originally, the thought was that we needed a Bugzilla User's Manual. However, since we don't own Bugzilla it doesn't make sense to produce documentation for it. Rather, we should document the process as it fits into the Yocto Project environment. Ideally, the manual would be a sub-manual that would be referenced and architected into the Yocto Project Development Guide. The manual has not been scoped and would take a week to scope. Again, I have no idea of the length. See the previous item for standard industry writing estimates for software documenation.	Medium	Not Started	Scott Rifenbark	3-4 Weeks	Documentation
Website	Yocto Project Website	The 0.9 website is in place but needs updates. Items for consideration are the left-panel naviagation scheme, a contributions guidance page, color-scheming and theme (possibly).	Medium	Not Started	Scott Rifenbark	1-2 Weeks	Website

Features not believed to be needed in v1.0:

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Poky Features	OpenEmbedded/Bitbake Upstreaming	"We firstly need to review where we are and where OE is. We then need to make a plan about what we're going to push upstream and what we're not. I'd suggest when we're in PRC, we do a crash course in ""dealing with OE"" and then many dedicate a block of time (a week) where the distro team comes up with a patch set we then propose and get merged into OE. I'd like to find a couple of interested people to monitor OE more regularly and start a workflow of things between Poky/OE where appropriate. The key thing to remember is we need to keep the architectures compatible. The team is now at the point where I'm happy for them to actually try building OpenEmbedded and not worry about it tainting them! "	2	Review		rpurdie	Process
Poky Features	Handle old versions in WORKDIR	an incremental build directory may finally include many old versions WORKDIRS. It'll be good to have those old versions tracked in the cache, which can then either generate a report or allow selectively cleaning up an specific version WORKDIR. Or else it's difficult to figure it out when people want to keep the whole tmp directory but like to cleanup some old bits when disk usage is under pressure. If it's not easy to do in bitbake, perhaps some separate scripts would be also helpful	3	Review		ktian1	Enhancement
Poky Features	run bitbake w/o rebuilding the cache	"sometimes it's useful to allow run bitbake w/o re-parsing recipes, if we know nothing metadata is changed. we can just allow reusing existing persistent cache. this is useful when people is debugging WORKDIR w/o metadata change. also sometimes ""bitbake -e"" is used frequently to check poky variable information. with existing cache, several seconds can be saved which are not negligible for a developer daily working on Yocto "	2	Review		ktian1	Enhancement
Poky Features	parallel make improvement	parallel make experience is not good, especially when bb threads and make threads are increased larger than 8. So far we either try to fix package makefile or mark the recipe as no parallel make, when build faiures are reported. But this greatly impacts user experience for a successfully continuous build process. Could we define a safe number we do want to support for 1.0 release? and then have our autobuilder, QA test, and developers cover that number immediately and fix any issues accordingly. Then the safe number can be suggested to the Yocto user	2	Review		ktian1	Enhancement
Poky Features	Dependency packages rebuild/clean	It is a mechanism to rebulid or clean a package and all other packages which have build/runtime dependency on it. With this change, we can find potential influences of package upgrade to its related packages, which can make the incremental build more trustable. For example, if we upgrade a package to a new vesion which changes its API, this mechanism can easily find out the incompatibility to other packages which have dependency on it.	2	Review		dongxiao.xu	Enhancement, replaced by checksum feature
Distribution / components	FOSSology	This may be similar to License Update above, but start to use FOSSology to track licenses.	2	Review		sgw	Hygiene
Distribution / components	Package Developer Tools	Create a set of Init scripts template and then review our current init scripts and modify them to confirm to the template.	2	Review		sgw	Easy of Use
Distribution / components	Package Website	Complete the work the intern has started on generating the distro tracking information and get it out on the external site.	2	Review		sgw	"Hygiene, duplicate of ""Package report system"""
Distribution / components	Bluetooth UI support	Currently we have bluez package in poky, and we need to have a workable graphic user interface to connect/configure BT devices. One choice may be gnome-bluetooth-applet.	3	Review		dongxiao.xu	enhancement
Distribution / components	Connman-gnome enhancement features	Enable connman-gnome to support features like, WPA Enterprise connection, hidden SSID, etc.	3	Review		dongxiao.xu	enhancement
Distribution / components	Java Running Environment support	Since most embedded systems support java applications running in it, maybe we'd better consider supporting some kinds of JVMs(Embeded JVM). The JVM may not run by default, but user can launch it if running java applications. Compared with GTK/QT, java user number is not small too.	3	Review		criping	enhancement
Distribution / components	create more use cases	UPnP demo is one really good use case showing how Yocto is utilized to make real functionality. and we could create more to show how Yocto is easily adapted to real use cases. Those use cases can be either maintained as seperate demo layers in yocto repo, or in seperate branches for reference. We can also call for community's contribution on this which would make 1.0 full-fledged. Or else the newbies to Yocto may be in puzzle how our sample profiles can satisfy their requirements.	2	Review		ktian1	enhancement
Distribution / components	i18n support	internationalization is an important system wide feature. Many component like font, locale affect the i18n. Yocto alreay has some i18n related package like pango, but so far did not consider i18n systematically. so this is place holder to systematically add i18n support.	2	Review		yuke/qing	enhancement
Distribution / components	more demos	demos are a good way to educate, push the envelope, and at the same time tout the strengths of the platform. This item just records a current set of ideas from various sources which could/should be implemented: * face-recognition/face-finding, * robotic control/application of face-finding to 'camera-as-sensor' (hexbug demo), * others [tbd, add here]	2	Review		tzanussi	enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	Yocto Installer support for image-creator and needed yocto-metadata design	Come up design what need to be created as packages to support using "opkg install" for image-creator and needed yocto-metadata	2	WIP, pending comments from RP regarding how to packaging metadata	Jessica	rpurdie	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	Yocto Installer image-creator and needed poky-metadata support	The poky build system will build packages for image-creator and needed poky-metadata, which the Yocto Installer will be able to use "opkg install" to install them	2	Review	Jessica	rpurdie	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	Provide qemu management UI	In current eclipse plugin, QEMU settings are put together with project configuration. So we can only have limited settings. If we can have a separate QEMU management UI, the end user could firstly create a QEMU config, such as (env file of arch, image location, unfs or not, sato or lsb, mem size, disk size). And then he can launch a QEMU with a specific config. The dependency between project configuration and QEMU config will be resolved. After all QEMU has nothing to do project configuration. Need to careful review the UI to ensure minimal impact to testing matrix.	3	Review		criping	"Enhancement, duplicate of ""Qemu mem/disk size can be adjusted"""
Tool Development and SDK Features	QT plugin For Eclipse	Integrate QT Ecplise plugin and extend for Yocto Project	3	Review		jzhang	Enhancement
Tool Development and SDK Features	Profiling/Trace GUI's	We have a wealth of great tracing and profiling tools but the UI's for them are all extremely minimal and usually quite ugly. Would be great if we could compete with, or even better, Apple's offerings here. We have the technology!	2	Review		josh	"Enhancement, duplicate of ""Tracing/Profiling Planning Complete"""
Tool Development and SDK Features	Other profiling tools	Complete Tom's review of profiling tools and architecture	2	Review		josh	"Enhancement, duplicate of ""Tracing/Profiling Planning Complete"""
Tool Development and SDK Features	Design next-gen tracing/profiling tools	Yocto 1.0 will include all the essential existing tracing/profiling tools expected by users, and Josh has proposed a UI integration of all those tools as far as it's possible to do so. That level of integration, basically a 'plugin-level' integration is necessary and useful, but doesn't go far enough. A next-generation tracing tool would integrate at a much more fundamental level; if done properly, it would provide unmatched levels of power and usability to users, and would allow Yocto to distinguish itself in the embedded tracing/profiling space in a way also unmatched by any other distro/build-tool. The implementation would of course not be available for Yocto 1.0, but a coherent design, including prototypes, that could be taken to the community and implemented in a V 1.5 or 2.0 should be done in that time frame.	1	Review		tzanussi	"Enhancement, duplicate of ""Tracing/Profiling Planning Complete"""
Documentation Features	Self Documentation of image contents	"I'd like to see the -doc packages Poky builds being combined into some kind of large documentation index representing the collective API docs of the target being built. This can then be placed on a webserver and viewed over the web. We'd have a demonstration of this for a ""bitbake world"" target. Part of the idea here is to start making good use of the docs as if developers see this they might start writing better docs too. Aim is to lead the field :). There are a number of places poky packages disable doc generation due to missing tools so we'd need to add these so we can enable the doc generation. Many packages already have many docs though too. "	2	Review		rpurdie	enhancement
Validation	Testing Framework	Add a framework for doing automated testing in the project	1	Review		davest	project commitment
Validation	more SDK builds on autobuilder	enable more SDK related tests on autobuilder such as meta-ide-support, etc.	2	Review		ktian1	project commitment, addressed by test plan (?)
Validation	more people should try using SDK	this may not be a feature, but a requirement. SDK including meta-toolchain is one key factor impacting user experience on Yocto. It's not enough to have only SDK team play with it	2	Review		ktian1	project commitment, addressed by test plan (?)
Validation	Unit Testing Framework	Add a mechanism to bitbake to parse source packages that have unit tests and then execute them on the target	3	Review		sgw	"project commitment, duplicate of ""Testing Framework"""
Validation	Test Case open source	Open source Yocto test cases with xml format	1	Review		yyou	"project commitment, duplicate of ""Testing Framework"""