Meetings

Backport project meetings

At times we may meet. This page is dedicated towards documenting any meetings that have taken place or will take place.

Linux Plumbers 2013 - New Orleans

There will be a talk about backporting at LPC 2013.

Sept 4 2012 meeting

On Sept 4, 2012 we had our first G+ Linux kernel backports hangout at. This took place at:

- 08:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in GMT - 01:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in US/Pacific - 04:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in US/Eastern - 10:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in Europe/Berlin - 11:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in Europe/Helsinki - 11:00:00 p.m. Tuesday September 4, 2012 in Asia/Jerusalem - 01:30:00 a.m. Wednesday September 5, 2012 in Asia/Calcutta

Recording of the session:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZqDz7sXZiQ

Agenda:

- Current project objectives:

- 802.11, Bluetooth, Ethernet, drm drivers - Vanilla kernels are supported but also now:

- RHEL6

- Coccinelle SmPL - 0001-netdev_ops.patch – collateral evolution work - Build server for helping with testing patches - git tree mirroring on git.kernel.org - Daily linux-next based snapshots via kernel.org - Public facing releases via kernel.org as of v3.7-rc1

- Things to look out for:

- linux-firmware.git updates - script install target ? - Module key signing & UEFI - Fedora 18 Alpha release schedule for 2012-09-11 - Understanding the implications of a stable extra version release update: ee9c8a04 backported to v3.4.6