Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status July 30th, 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 Aug. 2nd at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday July 30th 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:

• YP 4.0.20 was released
• YP 5.1 M2 is due to be released
• A new wiki page summarizing options for meta-gplv2 replacement was created: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Meta-gpl2_layer_replacement (thanks Khem)
• A document giving a brief overview of the Yocto Project Autobuilder/Infrastructure has been shared: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/images/0/04/Yocto_Project_Autobuilder.pdf and will be discussed on today’s engineering sync call.
• Autobuilder intermittent issues continue to cause concern but if we don’t have anyone able to work on them there is little we can do.
• A bug in pseudo around the resolution of symlinks was identified and a fix merged, thanks to the reporter for sending a good test case!
• We cleaned up a lot of python dependencies and added some extra tests, thanks Ross.
• The rustdoc reproducibility issue was found and fixed, thanks Sundeep! We will now be able to upgrade rust to newer versions although further issues remain in some newer versions.
• The new mesa version requires meta-clang for the intel drivers. We need to make a decision on how to handle this, clang is likely to make its way to core at some point but work is needed to make the overrides suitable for core before that can happen.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2798 (last week 2782) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1083 (last week 1079)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 179 (16%) [last week 178 (17%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.1 M2 is ready for release.
• 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 released.
• 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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