Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 1, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M3
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M3 Feature Freeze - Now

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 3rd at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Sept. 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 8th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• M3 has now closed and we’re at feature freeze for 3.2.
• There are a number of patches we need for 3.2 which are still being sorted out and M3 will build once that has happened.
• Bitbake server startup has been changed to avoid the issues previously discovered. There are some issues with traceback handling/reporting during early init which are being resolved as a result of that and those have open bugs.
• The server changes have improved memory resident bitbake but some issues with state tracking still remain so memory resident bitbake will not be the default until 3.3, assuming we can debug those remaining problems by early in 3.3.
• There has been work in enabling PRServ to work well with hash equivalence, thanks to Mark for sorting out this long standing work item. We aim to have this in 3.2 but some tests need fixing before it can completely merge.
• We will process one last round of recipe upgrades before we build M3.
• We were finally able to change the fcommon gcc defaults back to standard, thanks to all who helped make that happen.
• The number of autobuilder intermittent bugs has continued to rise unfortunately. 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 with any of these would be much appreciated, unfortunately it is proving hard to find anyone interested in helping figure these out and they significantly hamper our testing.
• One way to help the project is to help us with bugs that are currently unassigned but ideally needed during YP 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
• Globbing support in file:// urls has been removed.

YP 3.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.2 M3 build date 2020/8/31
• YP 3.2 M3 Release date 2020/9/11
• YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
• YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.3 build date 2020/9/14
• YP 3.1.3 release date 2020/9/25

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2436 (last week 2424) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1264 (last week 1273)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 502 (40%) [last week 502 (39%)]

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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• 2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
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• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive