Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status December 5th, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M1
Next Deadline: 4th December 2023 YP 5.0 M1 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday December 7th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday December 5th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.2.4 has passed QA and under discussion pending release
• YP 4.3.1 is in QA
• The BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG setting has exposed a bug where the bitbake server could hang due to thread deadlocking. A fix has been merged for it yesterday.
• The length of builds (world and oe-selftest) continues to be a concern.
• The intermittent issues on the autobuilder are causing problems for master branch development and stable releases and this is slowing down patch testing and merging. We simply don't have enough people to fix the issues quickly enough and the people we do have are struggling.
• There are some worrying issues around trying to fix the useradd bugs, particularly around inter-sstate task dependencies. There is a discussion about this on the openembedded-architecture list for those interested.
• The Yocto Project Summit is this week so the regular meetings are canceled so people can attend the summit: https://summit.yoctoproject.org/yocto-project-summit-2023-11/ .

Ways to contribute:

• 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: patchtest, layerindex, 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 4.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.3_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
• 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.

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.0 M1 build date 2023/12/04
• YP 5.0 M1 Release date 2023/12/15
• YP 5.0 M2 build date 2024/01/15
• YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
• YP 5.0 M3 build date 2024/02/19
• YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
• YP 5.0 M4 build date 2024/04/01
• YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
• YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
• YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
• YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
• YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
• YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
• YP 4.3.1 build date 2023/11/27
• YP 4.3.1 Release date 2023/12/08
• YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
• YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
• YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
• YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29
• YP 4.3.2 build date 2024/01/08
• YP 4.3.2 Release date 2024/01/19
• YP 3.1.31 build date 2024/01/22
• YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
• YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
• YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
• YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
• YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
• YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
• YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
• YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
• YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
• YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
• YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
• YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
• YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
• YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
• YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
• YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
• YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2547 (last week 2517) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1178 (last week 1177)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 253 (21%) [last week 253 (21%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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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