Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Aug. 25, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M3
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M3 build date 2020/8/31 - FEATURE FREEZE

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 3rd at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Sept. 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 8th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.0.4 was released
• M3 is due to close at the end of the week and this is the feature freeze point for 3.2
• After much debugging, we’ve concluded the bitbake cooker/server launch process is terminally flawed, you can’t fork a python process into two independent python processes and have the internal python state machinery work correctly. *As such, we’re going to have to make some major changes to the way the bitbake cooker/server startup happens.
• On a positive note, those server changes have forced many of the memory resident bitbake bugs to the surface and the new code appears to fix them, bringing memres bitbake much closer to being usable, maybe even becoming a default in this release if testing goes well.
• There is concern about invasive changes like this with regard to LTS/dunfell where these bitbake bugs are also present. Ultimately we will make a decision about backporting based upon patch stability and user feedback from the LTS users.
• We may delay M3 slightly to enable the bitbake server changes to merge since these are important for release and work making/merging.
• The number of autobuilder intermittent bugs has continued to rise unfortunately. 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.
• One way to help the project is to help us with bugs that are currently unassigned but ideally needed during YP 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
• There is a proposal on the bitbake list to remove globbing support from file:// urls. Usage of these urls currently breaks source file checksumming which users don’t realise, it can’t be fixed in a sane way so and the most common use cases has easy alternatives such as referencing a directory as a file:// url without globs so removing globbing support appears to be the best way forward.
• We have switched to the 5.8 kernel by default, it's taken a while to get through all the different issues but we appear to be there now, thanks to Bruce for working through many of them!
• Some long standing musl SDK issues should be resolved now.

YP 3.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.2 M3 build date 2020/8/31
• YP 3.2 M3 Release date 2020/9/11
• YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
• YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.3 build date 2020/9/14
• YP 3.1.3 release date 2020/9/25

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2436 (last week 2424) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1264 (last week 1273)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 502 (40%) [last week 502 (39%)]

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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