Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status May 18, 2021

Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M1
Next Deadline: 7th June 2021 YP 3.4 M1 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 20th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday June 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 18th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.2.4 is in QA and will be the final release in the 3.2 series.
• We’re continuing to merge significant changes into master as patches are tested and reviewed. This included many version upgrades(thanks Alex) bringing us back up to date after the pause during stabilization.
• The multiconfig changes in bitbake continue to cause problems, we could do with simpler test cases to reproduce issues rather than huge builds.
• There is an effort underway to triage the remaining reported CVEs against master and improve our presentation with regard to CVE tracking.
• We have patches in review to enable SMP for qemu for arm and x86 machines
• We also have a proposal to change the default x86 QEMU emulation configuration to something more recent/modern
• We appear to have serial IRQ handling issues with qemuppc and would welcome help from anyone with knowledge in that area.
• We have switched some gnome components from gtk-doc to gi-docgen in line with upstream
• Several of the PRServ rework patches have now merged (thanks Paul).
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur and are now at a record high level. 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 We are working to identify the load pattern on the infrastructure that seems to trigger these.

Ways to contribute:

• 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 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
• 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.

YP 3.4 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.4 M1 build date 2021/06/07
• YP 3.4 M1 Release date 2021/06/18
• YP 3.4 M2 build date 2021/07/12
• YP 3.4 M2 Release date 2021/07/23
• YP 3.4 M3 build date 2021/08/23
• YP 3.4 M3 Release date 2021/09/03
• YP 3.4 M4 build date 2021/10/04
• YP 3.4 M4 Release date 2021/10/29

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.2.4 is in released
• YP 3.3.1 is in QA
• YP 3.3.1 release date 2021/05/28
• YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/24
• YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/06/04
• YP 3.1.9 build date 2021/06/21
• YP 3.1.9 release date 2021/07/02
• YP 3.3.2 build date 2021/07/19
• YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/07/30
• YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
• YP 3.1.10 release date 2021/08/06
• YP 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
• YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2664 (last week 2674) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1297 (last week 1331)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 494 (38%) [last week 497 (37%)]

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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