Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Aug. 31, 2021

Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M3 (Feature Freeze)
Next Deadline: 23rd Aug. 2021 YP 3.4 M3 build (Feature Freeze)

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 2nd at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Sept. 7th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Aug. 31th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• We are now at feature freeze for YP 3.4
• Read-only PRServ and switch to asyncio was merged
• Rust merging to core is proving problematic due to issues interacting with uninative. These cause many strange autobuilder failures so this issue would have to be addressed in the next day or two in order to be in 3.4.
• glibc 2.34 and the merge of the various libraries into libc is causing significant problems for pseudo. This issue is causing significant worry as the project will struggle as distros adopt the new glibc version unless we work out how to fix things.
• The tune file layout change was merged.
• We are still hoping to get some of the planned SBOM work into 3.4
• Intermittent issues are ongoing and help is very much welcome on these issues. 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

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 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 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
• YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2633 (last week 2610) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1301 (last week 1299)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 482 (37%) [last week 484 (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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