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
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 Release (June 6 to June 13)

NOTE: The table below is under construction...

Group	Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Owner	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Architecture	OE Core	Restructuring, renaming, rebranding	1	Review	Richard	Architect
1.0 Carryover	image creator (I)	finish the Image Creator to add features pushed out from 1.0	1	Accept	Joshua + Jessica	1.0 Carryover
1.0 Carryover	multi-lib	multi-lib support for 32-bit & 64-bit and capable of being installed at the same time	1	Review	Richard (Qing)	1.0 Carryover
Meta-Data	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	Mark	Meta-data
BSPs	Support for AVX as in kernel 2.6.30. - Already in 1.0?	Any toolchain support needed? Is it already in GCC? Ensure part of toolchain update (if not already present). Verify with Bruce that AVX is enabled in kernel version XXX?	1	Accept	Saul / Nitin	Jay / ECG
Misc	User creation at pre-install		1	Accept	Mark (ScottG)	Architect
Build	Autobuilder maintenance	Bring scripts into configuration or get git repo working for those that can't be brought in. (~1.5 weeks)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Build	License tracking	Get common licenses for all packages. (takes ~3 days)	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Overall	Process Improvement	Host a retrospective to discuss what went well and what can be improved in Yocto 1.0.	1	Accept	Beth	Beth
Project	Release Readiness	Release Readiness Meeting	1	Jun-6	Julie	Julie
Point Release	Build/Release/QA	We need a point release to fix bugs targeted for point release. (Beths end: ~1-2 days of work with PRC. Release is trivial.)	1	Accept	Beth/Yongkang	Team
Performance	Plan for Performance	This is a placeholder to spend time this milestone determining the plan for improving performance. Various P1, P2, P3 tasks will be output as a result of this planning.	1	Review	Richard/Dongxiao	Team
Documentation	OOB documentation	Create an out of box guide for giveaway systems built using Yocto by EO May.	1	Review	ScottR	Julie
kernel	kernel tools	refactor/clean the kernel tools for more general use. include the tools withing the kernel repo, not in a separate repo	1	Review	Bruce	Bruce
kernel	kernel build	auto yoctization. allow the building of arbitrary repos and kernel versions via the yocto kernel meta data	1	Review	Bruce	Bruce
kernel	kernel update	kernel dev/next repo created. feature merges (fs, boot, tiny, controllers, etc). reference tree merges (omap, davinci, etc)	1	Review	Bruce	Bruce
ADT	Eclipse-native tools interface	More integrated with upstream once there's integrated Linux tools that meets our need, e.g. lttng-remote	2	Review	Jessica	ADT Team
??	End of package revision	replace with a network service	2	Review	Jessica	RP Notes
QA	Overall Test Plan	Create an overall Test Plan with details on Strategy, Approach, Types of Testing, Features included and not included, Hardware needed, Schedule, and Resources and publish to Wiki	1	Accept - May 6	Jiajun	Jiajun
QA	Test Execution Plan	Create a Test Execution Plan with specific Test Cases	1	Accept - May 16	Jiajun	Jiajun

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

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