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== Yocto Project Weekly Status November 19, 2019 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 28th, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M1 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M1 build Dec. 2, 2019<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Nov. 21st at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 30th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Dec. 3rd at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 28th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Nov. 19th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Dec. 10th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7.2 is under review by the TSC and likely to be released.
*YP 5.0.1 has been released.
*Tests were made on making reproducibility the default for poky. There were several issues found for which bugs were filed:
*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.
**A double free issue in opkg (Alejandro looking into, thanks)
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.
**devtool failures (Paul sent a fix, thanks)
*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.
**recipetool failures (Richard sent a fix)
*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.
*Tests were made on making the hashserver default for poky. There were also several issues found and RP is trying to understand and work through those. At least one critical issue has been identified and due to be tested.
*We aim to build YP 5.1 M1 after the performance issue is addressed and we have stable builds.
*The SWAT team no longer has enough people on it to make it sustainable and has therefore been disbanded. This means build owners need to triage their own build failures. Richard will be responsible for failures in the scheduled master builds.
*We were able to merge a chunk of pending patches but things are still processing slowly unfortunately.
*Intermittent build failures continue to hamper builds, particularly combined with the above issues and as few people are available to attempt to debug and resolve them.
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
*The TSC is working on LTS plans, productive discussions have been had and a new policy on handling this and stable releases should be available in the next couple of weeks.
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
*We have begun collecting ideas for YP 3.1 in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKZIGe88-eq3-pOPtkAvFAegbQDzhy_f4ye64yjnABc/edit?usp=sharing
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
*If anyone has any status items for the project they’d like to add to the weekly reports, please email Richard+Stephen.
**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.


'''Proposed YP 3.1 Milestone Dates'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1 M1 Proposed build date 12/2/2019
*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!
*YP 3.1 M1 Proposed release date 12/13/2019
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*YP 3.1 M2 Proposed build date 1/20/2020
*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
*YP 3.1 M2 Proposed release date 1/31/2020
*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 3.1 M3 Proposed build date 2/24/2020
*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.
*YP 3.1 M3 Proposed release date 3/6/2020
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
*YP 3.1 M4 Proposed build date  3/30/2020
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*YP 3.1 M4 Proposed release date  4/24/2020


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7.2 Should release this week.
*WDD 2772 (last week 2752) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.0.1 Proposed build date  11/25/2019
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.0.1 Proposed release date 12/06/2019
**Total patches found: 1121 (last week 1127)
*YP 2.7.3 Proposed build date  2/10/20
**Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
*YP 2.7.3 Proposed release date 2/21/20
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*YP 3.0.2 Proposed build date  2/3/20
*YP 3.0.2 Proposed release date 2/14/20


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*WDD 2533 (last week 2508) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
**Total patches found: 1461 (last week 1445)
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
**Patches in the Pending State: 579 (40%) [last week 579 (40%)]
*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:'''<br/>
*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:'''<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 ==
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

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

Archives