Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status June 15, 2021

Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M2
Next Deadline: 12th July 2021 YP 3.4 M2 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 10th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday July 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 8th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.4 M1 was built and is in the QA process.
• The intermittent ltp hanging issue is continuing to be tracked down, currently thought to be a kernel bug introduced around the 5.0 -> 5.1 kernel version window. We ended up unblocking M1 since it is clear the LTP issue will take longer to unravel. Whilst aufs was initially thought to be a possible cause, it wasn’t the issue.
• We are working around the autobuilder centos8 issue which is an issue with the upstream centos kernel where syscalls were backported in the latest version and don’t work properly.
• We have a 10th anniversary T-shirt and some other Yocto Project items (hoody, stickers, mugs etc.) now available at https://yoctoproject.org/shop (EU and Americas sources)
• The multiconfig changes in bitbake continue to cause problems, we still need simpler test cases to reproduce issues rather than huge builds. The existing patches seem to fix some workloads and break others. Richard is trying to fix but trying to fix autobuilder issues and other problems and these are slow builds to debug.
• 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 is in QA
• 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 3.1.9 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 2612 (last week 2630) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1270 (last week 1267)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 484 (38%) [last week 485 (38%)]

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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