Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status February 19, 2019

Current Dev Position: YP 2.7 M3
Next Deadline: YP 2.7 M3 Cutoff is Feb. 25, 2019

SWAT Team Rotation:

• SWAT lead is currently: Amanda
• SWAT team rotation: Amanda -> Ross on Feb. 22, 2019
• SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Chen on Mar. 1, 2019
• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Key Status/Updates:

• YP M2 rc1 had major problems in perl as fallout from the perl upgrade and switch to perl-cross. We’ve therefore built an rc2 based on a more recent master.
• The python upgrade to 3.7 merged, thanks to AlexK for his hard work on this. It means all of the major components in OE-Core are finally up to date (many minor versions are still adrift).
• Major util-linux changes have just merged which should hopefully allow easier long term maintenance of this recipe (all binaries now have their own package, this recipe kept being split up)
• Build performance tests on the autobuilder have been improved and builds now have automated result comparisons, e.g.: https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20190212-7/testresults/buildperf-ubuntu1604/perf-ubuntu1604_master_20190212045844_be52da1.html (from https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/92/builds/101) (Thanks to Markus for a lot of the underlying code/work)
• Build performance can now compare master to master-next test builds
• We continue to need help with ptest, both on the tests themselves and on the results reporting. The intent is to have something similar to the build performance pieces above.
• The recipe reporting system integration with the layer index is available at: https://layers.openembedded.org/rrs/recipes/OE-Core/2.7/M3/ and the historical data has now been imported.
• The project is considering moving its mailing list hosting to groups.io, if anyone has any experience of that, positive or negative please let Michael, Nico and Richard know. Note that google has made further significant changes to its mail processing at the detriment to mailing lists: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/freedesktop/2019-February/000396.html
• If anyone has feedback about the maintainers/recipe upgrade processes or how to attract new recipe maintainers, please talk to Richard Purdie / Ross Burton

Planned Releases for YP 2.7:

• YP 2.7 M2 is in QA for rc2.
• YP 2.7 M2 Release Target is Feb. 1, 2019
• YP 2.7 M3 Cutoff is Feb. 25, 2019
• YP 2.7 M3 Release Target is Mar. 8, 2019
• YP 2.7 M4 Cutoff is Apr. 1, 2019
• YP 2.7 M4 Release Target is Apr. 26, 2019

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.5.3 (Sumo) will be targeted after YP 2.7 M2 is done.
• YP 2.5.4 (Sumo) will be targeted after YP 2.7 M4 is done.
• YP 2.6.2 (Thud) will be targeted after YP 2.5.4 is done.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2353 (last week 2353) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1572 (last week 1572)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 663 (43%) [last week 663 (43%)]

Key Status Links for YP:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.7_Status
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.7_Schedule
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.7_Features

Archives

• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive