Report of the Buildroot Developers meeting @ ELCE 2018

Hello,

On October 20-21, a number of Buildroot developers gathered in Edinburgh (UK) for a 2-day Developers meeting. A short report for this meeting is now available at (thanks Arnout):

https://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysELCE2018#Meeting_report

We discussed:

- top level parallel build
- reproducible builds
- doing more testing
- hardening support in the toolchain wrapper
- LTO support
- S01logging updates
- Download of extra downloads with identical file names

Also, we had a general assembly of the Buildroot Association. And finally, most of the time was dedicated to actual hacking on Buildroot, with a strong focus on going through the patchwork backlog, and reviewing, replying and merging as many patches as possible. By the end of ELCE, the backlog of patches was down to ~200 patches.

Once again, I would like to thank our sponsors for this event:

- Mind, https://www.mind.be/
- Amarula Solutions, https://www.amarulasolutions.com/
- TK Open Systems, http://tkos.co.il/
- Bootlin, https://www.bootlin.com
- Logilin, https://www.logilin.fr/

Best regards,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

Hello,

And of course, I screwed up here, and forgot one sponsor:

- Rockwell Collins, http://www.rockwellcollins.com/, who sponsored the Sunday dinner for the participants

See also our tweet
https://twitter.com/buildrootorg/status/1057585745991471104.

Best regards,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com