Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status July 23rd, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M3
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M3 Build 26 Aug. 2024

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday July 25th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday July 23rd at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.20 is due to be released
• YP 5.1 M2 is in QA
• There is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
• SPDX 3.0 has merged and is now the default.
• We updated to glibc 2.40, thanks Khem. There is an issue with building pseudo under the new glibc version which is being worked on.
• We identified an issue which meant warnings/errors in nativesdk recipes were not showing on our autobuilder. We have the fix for the CI issue ready as soon as we fix those warnings/errors, the gcc path problems are proving tricky.
• We were able to optimize some space usage in builds, thanks Ross. The results are visible on our performance charts, e.g.: https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20240723-5/testresults/buildperf-alma8/perf-alma8_master_20240723030045_28fd497a26.html https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20240723-4/testresults/buildperf-debian11/perf-debian11_master_20240722200022_28fd497a26.html
• Further help on optimizing build disk usage would be most welcome.
• Some larger patches still need help with review these would be appreciated:
  • Improved CVE tooling from Marta
  • kernel fitimage changes from Adrian
  • bitbake-setup and configuration fragments from Alexander
• We’ve been trying to resolve some of the longer standing patches in review and are getting more caught up.

Ways to contribute:

• As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
• There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
• There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
• We’d welcome new maintainers for recipes in OE-Core. Please see the list at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and discuss with the existing maintainer, or ask on the OE-Core mailing list. We will likely move a chunk of these to “Unassigned” soon to help facilitate this.
• Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent issues. You can see the list of failures we’re continuing to see by searching for the “AB-INT” tag in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=AB-INT.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2782 (last week 2787) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1079 (last week 1082)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 178 (16%) [last week 178 (17%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.1 M2 is in QA.
• YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
• YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
• YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
• YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.20 is ready for release.
• YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
• YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
• YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
• YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
• YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
• YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
• YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
• YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
• YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
• YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
• YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
• YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

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