Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status July 13, 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 July 15th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday July 13th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday July 20th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1.9 was released.
• The prserv rewrite is still pending on resolving the issues with python asyncio.
• Alexandre Belloni/Bootlin have been taking over some of the patch testing/queuing work over the last couple of weeks, feedback to either Richard/Alexandre or the TSC on how this is working is welcome.
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur, about 50% of the open issues are now ptest failures, many occurring more frequently on arm and the rest are various other races or timeouts. 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 have made progress on a couple of the race issues and on one of the ptest issues (util-linux), some of the ptest issues and the bitbake server timeout issue are now our most frequently encountered issues.
• A rootfs license race issue (#14123) now has reproduction steps which should allow a fix to follow.
• 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 and current test cases are very slow to work with.

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 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 3.3.2 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 2658 (last week 2668) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1284 (last week 1276)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 480 (37%) [last week 481 (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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• 2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive