Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status August 30th, 2022

Current Dev Position: YP 4.1 M3 (Feature Freeze)
Next Deadline: 22nd August 2022 YP 4.1 M3 Build

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.3 was released
• YP 3.1.19 has been built and is in QA
• We are now at feature freeze for 4.1.
• The 4.1 build is planned as soon as we resolve the status of some pending patches. The known remaining issues are the rust automated tests, layer setup changes and gcc and rust version upgrades. We also need to fix some autobuilder errors such as the llvm reproducibility issue with mesa.
• Several patch series have been problematic in the last week which has put strain on our infrastructure, particularly the binutils upgrade.
• The CVE count for master rose sharply again this week due to multiple issues in vim and tiff. The vim issues have been patched, tiff hasn’t as yet.
• We have seen a sharp rise in the number of patches in OE-Core, particularly related to changes in new clang versions. Many of these have been submitted upstream and/or have good reasons for being present but we need to continue to work to reduce our patch burden.
• Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent 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 4.1 See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.1_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.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRgNISmH0Ditf0bRtSezeR2XsgKIiSFJKF6KJUHpnzocNGzvKZbuSDKfmV3n64BFXDRqElBSJnhHtG4/pubchart?oid=1993375488&format=interactive

YP 4.1 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.1 M3 build date 2022/08/22
• YP 4.1 M3 Release date 2022/09/02
• YP 4.1 M4 build date 2022/10/03
• YP 4.1 M4 Release date 2022/10/28

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.19 is released
• YP 4.0.4 build date 2022/09/19
• YP 4.0.4 Release date 2022/09/30
• YP 3.1.20 build date 2022/10/10
• YP 3.1.20 Release date 2022/10/21
• YP 4.0.5 build date 2022/10/31
• YP 4.0.5 Release date 2022/11/11

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2469 (last week 2482) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1224 (last week 1212)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 329 (27%) [last week 329 (27%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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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