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== Yocto Project Weekly Status April 16, 2019 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 28th, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 2.7 M4 (2.7 rc2 is in QA)<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Next Deadline: YP 2.7 Release Target April 26, 2019<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<br/>
 
'''SWAT Team Rotation:'''<br/>
 
*SWAT lead is currently: Chen
*SWAT team rotation: Chen -> Armin on Apr. 19, 2019
*SWAT team rotation: Armin -> Anuj on Apr. 26, 2019
*https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*YP 2.8 Planning meeting Tuesday April 16nd at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)  
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 30th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday April 18th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 28th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*Stephen is unavailable at the moment, please refer any queries to Richard
*YP 5.0.1 has been released.
*YP 2.6.2 was rebuilt as rc4 to include the boost upgrade revert and is due to be released today. The YP 2.6.2 rc3/4 report is summarized at https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2019-April/044827.html and the results are at https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/releases/yocto-2.6.2.rc4/testresults/.
*We have suspected a performance problem for a while, this has now been identified/confirmed as an issue with hash equivalence. The public server using websockets/SSL has significantly slowed down things, to the point a 2 hour world build is taking 18+ hours. In trying to improve this, we ended up destablising the autobuilders entirely, breaking many builds and halting the patch merging.
*YP 2.5.3 is currently going through the QA process.
The problem is visible both at build initialization time and also at any point it rehashes due to new hash information from the server. We are still trying to work out ways to improve things but there appears to be multiple levels of different problems, including the hashserve client parallelism seeming to have bugs. The issue affects scarthgap as well as master.
*We’re sad to announce that we will be removing eclipse plugin builds from the autobuilder and will not be including the plugin in any future project releases. This is due to a lack of anyone able to help work on the plugin development, bug fixing or release.
*A new gcc 14 compatible version of uninative was released allowing fedora 40 testing. Unfortunately there are issues with build failures on that host that are as yet uninvestigated.
*The key fixes mentioned in last week’s status have been merged into 2.7.
*The WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and other layers are now working on the updates needed. There appear to be some challenges around go modules in particular which are needing more investigation and development time.
*A key bug in pseudo was identified which may be the root cause of the long standing glibc-locale uid “host contamination” issue. Many thanks to Peter and Otavio for the help in debugging that. A separate fix should also ensure pseudo works with newer distro coreutils and glibc versions.
*We aim to build YP 5.1 M1 after the performance issue is addressed and we have stable builds.
*YP 2.7 rc2 (warrior) was built successfully and is currently going through the QA process after 2.5.3 is done.
*We were able to merge a chunk of pending patches but things are still processing slowly unfortunately.
*The ptest results in 2.7 are much more stable than ever before with results being consistent from build to build. At the start of 2.8 we can make some further improvements so we take advantage of this and build upon it to reduce regressions in the system.
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
*In an effort to keep the patch queue under control, patches are merging to master.
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
*The list of issues from last week of worrying things we lack resources to improve upon remains:
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
**Intermittent autobuilder failures (fork running out of resources - which resources?, oe-selftest intermittent issues, gpg signing resource problems, occasional PR server failure and more)
**Unfortunately there are reports that the backlog of CVEs without version constraints is growing rapidly
**Build-appliance testing issues (show up on each QA report across multiple releases)
*There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD situation, more information is available here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990
**40% valgrind ptest failures
**Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
**Known bitbake memory resident bugs
**Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for these changes.
**Other ptest failures
*The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software manifests of output at a later date.
*The 2.8 planning discussions are starting and there is a google doc summarising the discussions so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNEKA4d0eT6-e0hnS2pwi7xdZ5_t6smpZO2HbaJGXbU/
*The project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal, also not helped with the performance issue identfiied above.
*If people are planning to work on specific things in 2.8 please let us know so we can incorporate this into our plans. If you’re interested in working on anything in the document, please also let us know or talk with us in one of the planning meetings.
*Further performance graph improvements have merged and the graphs now have links to specific revisions allowing regressions to be much more easily tracked down.
 
'''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 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 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_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.


'''Planned Releases for YP 2.7:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7 M4 Cutoff was Apr. 1, 2019
*WDD 2772 (last week 2752) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 2.7 M4 Release Target is Apr. 26, 2019
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1121 (last week 1127)
**Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 2.5.3 (Sumo) is in QA.
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2523  (last week 2442) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.0.1 is released.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
**Total patches found: 1553 (last week 1553)
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
**Patches in the Pending State: 654 (42%) [last week 655 (42%)]
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
*YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
*YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
*YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
*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


'''Key Status Links for YP:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.7_Status<br/>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC<br/>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.7_Schedule<br/>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.7_Features<br/>


== Archives ==
== Archives ==
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*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
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Latest revision as of 14:40, 28 May 2024

Yocto Project Weekly Status May 28th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.0.1 has been released.
  • We have suspected a performance problem for a while, this has now been identified/confirmed as an issue with hash equivalence. The public server using websockets/SSL has significantly slowed down things, to the point a 2 hour world build is taking 18+ hours. In trying to improve this, we ended up destablising the autobuilders entirely, breaking many builds and halting the patch merging.

The problem is visible both at build initialization time and also at any point it rehashes due to new hash information from the server. We are still trying to work out ways to improve things but there appears to be multiple levels of different problems, including the hashserve client parallelism seeming to have bugs. The issue affects scarthgap as well as master.

  • A new gcc 14 compatible version of uninative was released allowing fedora 40 testing. Unfortunately there are issues with build failures on that host that are as yet uninvestigated.
  • The WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and other layers are now working on the updates needed. There appear to be some challenges around go modules in particular which are needing more investigation and development time.
  • We aim to build YP 5.1 M1 after the performance issue is addressed and we have stable builds.
  • We were able to merge a chunk of pending patches but things are still processing slowly unfortunately.
  • There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
    • There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
    • CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
    • Unfortunately there are reports that the backlog of CVEs without version constraints is growing rapidly
  • There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD situation, more information is available here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990
    • Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
    • Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for these changes.
  • The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software manifests of output at a later date.
  • The project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal, also not helped with the performance issue identfiied above.
  • Further performance graph improvements have merged and the graphs now have links to specific revisions allowing regressions to be much more easily tracked down.

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
  • YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
  • YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
  • YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
  • YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
  • YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
  • YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
  • YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.1 is released.
  • YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
  • YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
  • YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
  • YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
  • YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
  • YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
  • YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
  • YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
  • YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
  • YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
  • YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
  • YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
  • 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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