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== Yocto Project Weekly Status January 28, 2020 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status June 4th, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M3 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M2 in QA - release 1/31/20<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Jan. 30th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 6th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday  Fab. 4th  at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 4th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Jan. 28th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Feb. 11th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)


'''Tip of the Week:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*The scripts in ${WORKDIR}/temp/run.XXX for shell tasks can be quickly hacked and used for standalone debugging by replacing the function call at the end with “bash -i” which will then drop you into a shell environment matching the task being debugged (minus the fakeroot context).  
*YP 4.0.19 is in QA
*Bonus marks for anyone sending a patch to add the fakeroot context as comments at the start of the scripts.
*YP 5.1 M1 rc1 is building
*(anyone with tips they’d like to see here, please send to Stephen or Richard)
*We identified the performance problem in bitbake using hash equivalence servers and have made changes to batch queries and improve build times
*Extra logging for that performance problem is available by setting BB_LOGCONFIG=XXX/bitbake/contrib/autobuilderlog.json (the more verbose logging the autobuilder uses) which will then show if initial query or rehash looping takes longer than 30s for iterations or 60s overall.
*We changed locked-sigs to include the hash equivalence mapping data, removing the need to copy the cache file.
*Libtool was upgraded to the 2.5.0 alpha release, many patches were merged upstream.
*Qemu has been upgraded to 9.0.0, kernel headers to 6.9 and stable and dev kernel updates merged (to 6.6.32)
*There is one remaining issue on fedora40, systemtap-native does not build. The other Fedora 40 are believed to be fixed.
*Some layers are setting fallbacks for UNPACKDIR which break OE-Core by trying to claim compatibility with everything. Errors have been added to make this problem clear.
*sstate has had changes to fix a bug where build-history data was inconsistent. The siteconfig class was removed to make that change easier and improve the code, it was mostly unused anyway.
*The parallelism in the hash client was removed as batching queries is much more effective and easier on the server.
*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.
*There is a further update from Marta/Syslinbit on the CVE tooling/patches
*We continue to have trouble tracking down the rust reproducibility problem in rustdoc.
*Post release upgrading is resulting in an improvement in patch metrics which is great to see, more should appear next week in the statistics too.


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1 M2 is in QA but has issues with build reproducibility
*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!
*We’re unlikely to rebuild M2 as master has the same issues and they look like they will take a while to resolve.
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*There are now serious problems with the build reproducibility test failures on the autobuilder. We’re not sure why there is a sudden set of problems but they are real issues and causing most builds to fail. The tests will have to be disabled unless they can be resolved quickly. There are fixes merged for the CONFIG_SHELL issue and kbd and patches queued as a potential fix for makeinfo. There are more remaining issues, some have open bugs, others don’t have bugs yet. Help with any of these would be appreciated (or help filing the bugs).
*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’re collecting a list of companies, products and projects which use the Yocto Project on the wiki: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Project_Users Please add any you know are missing (or email Richard/Stephen who can add).
*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 have created a “documentation” list and a “licensing” list on the yocto project mailing list infrastructure. We believe these topics would benefit from dedicated discussions, the people involved usually aren’t interested in bulk email as would be found on other lists. The new lists can be found at: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/licensing/join and https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/join
*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.
*There is continued concern about the number of recurring/intermittent failures in the automated testing, mostly from selftest and testimage.
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
*We continue to struggle to get clean ‘full’ builds due to the reproducibility issues in particular.
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*The triage team is worried about attendance at triage meetings and the project is finding it hard to find people to help fix bugs. If anyone is willing to work on bugs, assistance would be greatly appreciated.


'''Proposed YP 3.1 Milestone Dates'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1 M2 release date 1/31/2020
*WDD 2772 (last week 2772) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
**Total patches found: 1098 (last week 1121)
*YP 3.1 M4 build date  3/30/2020
**Patches in the Pending State: 205 (19%) [last week 221 (20%)]
*YP 3.1 M4 release date  4/24/2020
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7.3 build date 2/10/2020
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 3.0.2 build date 2/3/2020
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020
*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 2765 (last week 2758) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 4.0.19 is in QA.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
**Total patches found: 1368 (last week 1357)
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
**Patches in the Pending State: 545 (40%) [last week 536 (39%)]
*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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Latest revision as of 14:49, 4 June 2024

Yocto Project Weekly Status June 4th, 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 4.0.19 is in QA
  • YP 5.1 M1 rc1 is building
  • We identified the performance problem in bitbake using hash equivalence servers and have made changes to batch queries and improve build times
  • Extra logging for that performance problem is available by setting BB_LOGCONFIG=XXX/bitbake/contrib/autobuilderlog.json (the more verbose logging the autobuilder uses) which will then show if initial query or rehash looping takes longer than 30s for iterations or 60s overall.
  • We changed locked-sigs to include the hash equivalence mapping data, removing the need to copy the cache file.
  • Libtool was upgraded to the 2.5.0 alpha release, many patches were merged upstream.
  • Qemu has been upgraded to 9.0.0, kernel headers to 6.9 and stable and dev kernel updates merged (to 6.6.32)
  • There is one remaining issue on fedora40, systemtap-native does not build. The other Fedora 40 are believed to be fixed.
  • Some layers are setting fallbacks for UNPACKDIR which break OE-Core by trying to claim compatibility with everything. Errors have been added to make this problem clear.
  • sstate has had changes to fix a bug where build-history data was inconsistent. The siteconfig class was removed to make that change easier and improve the code, it was mostly unused anyway.
  • The parallelism in the hash client was removed as batching queries is much more effective and easier on the server.
  • 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.
  • There is a further update from Marta/Syslinbit on the CVE tooling/patches
  • We continue to have trouble tracking down the rust reproducibility problem in rustdoc.
  • Post release upgrading is resulting in an improvement in patch metrics which is great to see, more should appear next week in the statistics too.

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 4.0.19 is in QA.
  • 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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