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== Yocto Project Weekly Status November 15th, 2022 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status November 22nd, 2022 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M1<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M1<br/>
Next Deadline: 5th December 2022 YP 4.2 M1 Build<br/>
Next Deadline: 5th December 2022 YP 4.2 M1 Build<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday November 17th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday November 25th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday November 15th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday November 22nd 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 4.1.1 is in QA.
*YP 4.1.1 has passed QA and is likely to be released imminently.
*Patches continue to flow steadily into master.
*We’d like to remind people of the importance of developing features on master. Once ready, these can then become available in the next LTS. We do not develop features against current LTS releases, that defeats their purpose.
*We are keeping roughly up to date with version upgrades, thanks to those working on that.
*A key bug in sstate reuse with hash equivalence where “hard” dependencies like pseudo-native and shadow-native rehash was found and is fixed in bitbake master.
*We renamed the create-spdx class to include a version in the name as it became clear the output is specific to that version of SPDX and will need changes for 3.0.
*We are thinking about more significant bitbake changes at the moment. Some ideas under consideration are:
*oe-selftest is now working much better on arm hosts (thanks Ross).
**Adding extra information about hashes to the bitbake cache (and the expense of slower loading cache files and slightly slower initial parsing). This would allow easier debugging of hash mismatch issues (e.g. basehash parsing mismatches or esdk hash issues).
**Thinking about the idea of variable “filter” functions to help implementation of recipe class extensions (like native and nativesdk).
**Extending bitbake’s recipe syntax to support structured data.
*We’d welcome a proposal/series on how to move forward with the Y2038 work for 32 bit platforms.
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*We need to form a plan for handling the Y2038 issue on 32 bit platforms. There don’t appear to be easy solutions so a flag day adding to CFLAGS looks like it may be the only realistic option.
*It was great to see some interesting bitbake patches/fixes.


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
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'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.1.1 is in QA
*YP 4.1.1 is ready for release
*YP 4.1.1 Release date 2022/11/25
*YP 3.1.21 build date 2022/11/28
*YP 3.1.21 build date 2022/11/28
*YP 3.1.21 Release date 2022/12/09
*YP 3.1.21 Release date 2022/12/09
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'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2434 (last week 2424) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2436 (last week 2434) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1187 (last week 1201)
**Total patches found: 1178 (last week 1187)
**Patches in the Pending State: 296 (25%) [last week 296 (25%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 289 (25%) [last week 296 (25%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/



Revision as of 15:45, 22 November 2022

Yocto Project Weekly Status November 22nd, 2022

Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M1
Next Deadline: 5th December 2022 YP 4.2 M1 Build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 4.1.1 has passed QA and is likely to be released imminently.
  • We’d like to remind people of the importance of developing features on master. Once ready, these can then become available in the next LTS. We do not develop features against current LTS releases, that defeats their purpose.
  • A key bug in sstate reuse with hash equivalence where “hard” dependencies like pseudo-native and shadow-native rehash was found and is fixed in bitbake master.
  • We are thinking about more significant bitbake changes at the moment. Some ideas under consideration are:
    • Adding extra information about hashes to the bitbake cache (and the expense of slower loading cache files and slightly slower initial parsing). This would allow easier debugging of hash mismatch issues (e.g. basehash parsing mismatches or esdk hash issues).
    • Thinking about the idea of variable “filter” functions to help implementation of recipe class extensions (like native and nativesdk).
    • Extending bitbake’s recipe syntax to support structured data.
  • We’d welcome a proposal/series on how to move forward with the Y2038 work for 32 bit platforms.
  • We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

Ways to contribute:

YP 4.2 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 4.2 M1 build date 2022/12/05
  • YP 4.2 M1 Release date 2022/12/16
  • YP 4.2 M2 build date 2023/01/23
  • YP 4.2 M2 Release date 2023/02/03
  • YP 4.2 M3 build date 2023/02/20
  • YP 4.2 M3 Release date 2023/03/03
  • YP 4.2 M4 build date 2023/04/03
  • YP 4.2 M4 Release date 2023/04/28

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 4.1.1 is ready for release
  • YP 3.1.21 build date 2022/11/28
  • YP 3.1.21 Release date 2022/12/09
  • YP 4.0.6 build date 2022/12/12
  • YP 4.0.6 Release date 2022/12/23
  • YP 4.1.2 build date 2023/01/09
  • YP 4.1.2 Release date 2023/01/20
  • YP 3.1.22 build date 2023/01/16
  • YP 3.1.22 Release date 2023/01/27
  • YP 4.0.7 build date 2023/01/30
  • YP 4.0.7 Release date 2023/02/10
  • YP 3.1.23 build date 2023/02/13
  • YP 3.1.23 Release date 2023/02/24
  • YP 4.0.8 build date 2023/02/27
  • YP 4.0.8 Release date 2023/03/10
  • YP 4.1.3 build date 2023/03/06
  • YP 4.1.3 Release date 2023/03/17
  • YP 3.1.24 build date 2023/03/20
  • YP 3.1.24 Release date 2023/03/31
  • YP 4.0.9 build date 2023/04/10
  • YP 4.0.9 Release date 2023/04/21
  • YP 4.1.4 build date 2023/05/01
  • YP 4.1.4 Release date 2023/05/13
  • YP 3.1.25 build date 2023/05/08
  • YP 3.1.25 Release date 2023/05/19
  • YP 4.0.10 build date 2023/05/15
  • YP 4.0.10 Release date 2023/05/26

Tracking Metrics:

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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