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== Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 22, 2020 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 1st, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M3<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 release built and awaiting release notes<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M3 Feature Freeze - Now<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 24th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Oct. 3rd at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Oct. 6th at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday Oct. 1st at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 22th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester  
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*M3 rc1 has been built and been through QA. Unfortunately beaglebone fails to boot so we’ll have to go to an rc2. There were 4 other issues reported by QA too (3 ptest regressions and a bitbake UI issue).
*YP 5.1 rc1 (final release) is in QA, the final work item is updating the documentation. Help to write and review release notes and migration guides is greatly appreciated.
*We plan to build 3.1.3 imminently
*YP 5.0.4 is out of QA and under review for release.
*The sphinx documentation transition has merged. There is still work needed to clean up various links and other conversion glitches as well as areas the manual needs to be brought up to date. Any help much appreciated. Big thanks to Nico for driving this!
*master and styhead have now diverged, so be aware of this if you’re tracking git branches.
*The new documentation can be seen at  https://docs.yoctoproject.org/,
*The new release series name is available in OE-Core master, ‘walnascar’ aka ‘walna’ verbally. Users are encouraged to update their master/devel branches to this.
*One significant potential cause for autobuilder timeout issues has been identified, potentially the journal on ext4 filesystems was causing IO prioritisation to fail as the journal only runs with one IO level. We’ve modified the journal options on autobuilder workers to be “writeback” to avoid this. This should reduce autobuilder bitbake timeout issues.
*Early testing shows problems in Fedora 41 related to pseudo. Help in debugging and root causing appreciated.
*Two of the three significant autobuilder issues mentioned last week remain:
*The Ubuntu 24.04 with NFS issue has been resolved, but unless we respin the release build will not be fixed in 5.1.0.  A fix is already integrated into bitbake and will be in the first point release.
**qemumips fails with systemd with 256MB memory, it needs 512MB. If we enable 512MB, we see random hangs. Unless someone can debug and sort the qemu memory issues, we may end up disabling core-image-sato-sdk and core-image-full-cmdline for qemumips+systemd
*Migration to the new autobuilder is proceeding with regular users now encouraged to trigger builds on the new cluster to stress test and identify any issues.
**networking with qemu images appears to glitch at times (particularly slower targets such as ltp and qemumips), the session stalls with “no route to host”. We need better serial interrogation to determine the state of qemu when this happens, it's unclear if qemu/kernel hangs, networking fails or what is breaking. Help to add this extra debugging would be much appreciated.
*There are YP 5.2 proposed milestone dates https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDrD9nFjosvLHa7EfL_Y1-1slK7u5Am6NZV6QRF2P6s/edit - please review and let us know if there are any concerns.
*There are new autobuilder issues this week, a pseudo bug appears to be being exposed as well as new intermittent issues, as yet not looked into.
*There is discussion around configuration file markup/syntax related to fragment management on the architecture list, targeting 5.2.
*We continue to struggle with a number of autobuilder intermittent bugs. 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 with any of these would be much appreciated, unfortunately it is proving hard to find anyone interested in helping figure these out and they significantly hamper our testing.
*For 5.2 it would be helpful to have rough development plans for areas of the project if anyone is able to help document a rough roadmap/plan for them. The following areas are known to be being or need working on:
**Autobuilder
**Binary Distro
**Bitbake config fragments
**Bitbake setup process/tooling
**GUI screen shot QA test
**IDE Plugin development
**Layer Index
**Patchtest
**Security Tooling
**Swatbot
**Toaster
*If there are other areas we should have plans for, please let us know.


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*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: 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 is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
*There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.2_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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.
*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 3.2 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2 M3 is out of QA and will be rebuilt
*WDD 2704 (last week 2749) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30
**Total patches found: 1067 (last week 1067)
**Patches in the Pending State: 176 (16%) [last week 176 (16%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.3 build date 2020/9/14
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25
*YP 3.1.3 release date 2020/9/25
*YP 3.1.4 build date 2020/11/2
*YP 3.1.4 release date 2020/11/13


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2469 (last week 2466) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.0.4 is ready for release.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
**Total patches found: 1268 (last week 1258)
*YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
**Patches in the Pending State: 496 (39%) [last week 496 (39%)]
*YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
*YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
*YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
*YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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== Archives ==
== Archives ==
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*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:43, 1 October 2024

Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 1st, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 release built and awaiting release notes
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.1 rc1 (final release) is in QA, the final work item is updating the documentation. Help to write and review release notes and migration guides is greatly appreciated.
  • YP 5.0.4 is out of QA and under review for release.
  • master and styhead have now diverged, so be aware of this if you’re tracking git branches.
  • The new release series name is available in OE-Core master, ‘walnascar’ aka ‘walna’ verbally. Users are encouraged to update their master/devel branches to this.
  • Early testing shows problems in Fedora 41 related to pseudo. Help in debugging and root causing appreciated.
  • The Ubuntu 24.04 with NFS issue has been resolved, but unless we respin the release build will not be fixed in 5.1.0. A fix is already integrated into bitbake and will be in the first point release.
  • Migration to the new autobuilder is proceeding with regular users now encouraged to trigger builds on the new cluster to stress test and identify any issues.
  • There are YP 5.2 proposed milestone dates https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDrD9nFjosvLHa7EfL_Y1-1slK7u5Am6NZV6QRF2P6s/edit - please review and let us know if there are any concerns.
  • There is discussion around configuration file markup/syntax related to fragment management on the architecture list, targeting 5.2.
  • For 5.2 it would be helpful to have rough development plans for areas of the project if anyone is able to help document a rough roadmap/plan for them. The following areas are known to be being or need working on:
    • Autobuilder
    • Binary Distro
    • Bitbake config fragments
    • Bitbake setup process/tooling
    • GUI screen shot QA test
    • IDE Plugin development
    • Layer Index
    • Patchtest
    • Security Tooling
    • Swatbot
    • Toaster
  • If there are other areas we should have plans for, please let us know.

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: 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 is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
  • 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 5.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.2_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
  • 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.

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.4 is ready for release.
  • YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
  • YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
  • YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
  • YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
  • YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
  • YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29

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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