Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status May 16th, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M1
Next Deadline: 5th June 2023 YP 4.3 M1 build date

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 18th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 16th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.2 has been released, thanks to everyone who has worked on it!
• YP 4.1.4 is due to be released
• YP 3.1.25 is in QA
• The warnings issues on the autobuilder have mostly been resolved but there are a number of lingering intermittent issues that we’re still working through.
• Patches have been merging into master but there continues to be a number of issues being found in testing which does slow down the process.
• There are time64 patches being proposed to handle Y2038 issues on 32 bit architectures which likely need further discussion since the compiler flag changes aren’t without risk and potential side effects.
• The minimum kernel version for OE-Core is now set at 5.15 as part of the time64 work but also to aid performance.
• We’re aiming to improve documentation as we go along in this release, please keep this in mind when sending patches!
• There is a proposal on the bitbake mailing list which would allow the possibility of layer overrides, which could be useful for some of the QA checks recently discussed.

Ways to contribute:

• As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: patchtest, layerindex, devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
• 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 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_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 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.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.3 M1 build date 2023/06/05
• YP 4.3 M1 Release date 2023/06/16
• YP 4.3 M2 build date 2023/07/17
• YP 4.3 M2 Release date 2023/07/28
• YP 4.3 M3 build date 2023/08/28
• YP 4.3 M3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 4.3 M4 build date 2023/10/02
• YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.1.4 is released
• YP 3.1.25 is released
• YP 4.0.10 is in QA
• YP 4.0.10 Release date 2023/05/26
• YP 4.2.1 build date 2023/05/22
• YP 4.2.1 Release date 2023/06/02
• YP 3.1.26 build date 2023/06/19
• YP 3.1.26 Release date 2023/06/30
• YP 4.0.11 build date 2023/06/26
• YP 4.0.11 Release date 2023/07/07
• YP 4.2.2 build date 2023/07/10
• YP 4.2.2 Release date 2023/07/21
• YP 3.1.27 build date 2023/07/31
• YP 3.1.27 Release date 2023/08/11
• YP 4.0.12 build date 2023/08/07
• YP 4.0.12 Release date 2023/08/18
• YP 4.2.3 build date 2023/08/28
• YP 4.2.3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
• YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
• YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
• YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
• YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
• YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
• YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
• YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
• YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
• YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
• YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
• YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
• YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
• YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2535 (last week 2517) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1198 (last week 1201)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 278 (23%) [last week 278 (23%)]
• 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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