Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status February 4, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M3
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Feb. 6th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Fab. 4th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Feb. 11th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Feb. 11th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1 M2 is due to be released with reservations.
• There are significant concerns with M2 due to the build build reproducibility failures which continue to cause major problems with master too. These will have to block the M3 build/release.
• The NPM fetcher rework patches have now merged, we’d like to thank Jean-Marie Lemetayer for his patience whilst they were made into good shape with regression tests, thanks, its a good end result.
• The host dependencies on makeinfo and pod2man have now been dropped to simplify build dependencies and improve reproducibility.
• The mpc8315e-rdb machine/BSP has been dropped from meta-yocto-bsp.
• Build reproducibility issues have been tracked down to a number of causes but many more remain, some with open bugs, some with bugs yet to be filed. Any assistance with reproducibility issues is appreciated as is the major factor blocking patch merging at present.
• Reproducibility failure debugging has been improved with better integration into the autobuilder to assist with this. Saved problematic output is now saved at: https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/
• Ongoing kernel issues still prevent kernel upgrades merging at present but work on debugging the issues is moving forward (thanks Victor/Cisco in particular)
• 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 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
• 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

• YP 3.1 M2 should release shortly
• YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
• YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
• YP 3.1 M4 build date 3/30/2020
• YP 3.1 M4 release date 4/24/2020

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.7.3 build date 2/10/2020
• YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
• YP 3.0.2 build date 2/3/2020
• YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2767 (last week 2765) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1368 (last week 1368)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 544 (40%) [last week 545 (40%)]

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Archives

• 2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive