Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status July 23, 2019

Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M2
Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone 2 Cutoff July 14th, 2019

SWAT Team Rotation:

• SWAT lead is currently: Anuj
• SWAT team rotation: Anuj -> Paul on July 26, 2019
• SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Aug. 2, 2019
• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday July 25th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting August 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - Next event is August 6th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

Key Status/Updates:

• 2.7.1 was released
• 2.6.3 has patches pending review and then will be built
• We have a new “newcomer” bug category which are bugs suited to someone new to the project. These can be seen here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Newcomer_Bugs
• There are ongoing discussions on a few key topics which are summarized here for convenience. Please contribute if you have an interest in these areas:
  • Running the testsuites for glibc/binutils/gcc
  • Moving lsb to its own layer
  • Removing poky-lsb in favour of some configuration fragments
  • Reproducibility
  • Minimizing python2 dependencies
  • Configuration of init systems
• Changing poky’s init system default to systemd is running into a large number of testing failures on the autobuilder which puts that change at risk.
• The autobuilder performance problem when stopping builds has been tracked down and fixed. The controller was also upgraded for some performance improvements (thanks Michael).*
• There are patches available which enable runqueue optimisations based on output comparisons of tasks. This removes the need to run later tasks if the output is unchanged and is based upon the previous hash equivalence server work. This feature should be a significant win for the users and is now working to a level where we’ll likely make this a key feature of the next release.

Planned Releases for YP 2.8:

• M2 Cutoff 14th July
• M2 Release 26th July
• M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) 25th Aug
• M3 Release 6th Sept
• M4 Cutoff 30th Sept
• 2.8 (M4) Final Release 25th Oct

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.7.1 (Warrior) is released.
• YP 2.6.3 (Thud) is intended for build after 2.7.1 is complete and before 2.8 M2

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2483 (last week 2489) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1499 (last week 1502)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 623 (42%) [last week 630 (42%)]

Key Status Links for YP:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.8_Status
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Schedule
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Features

Archives

• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive