Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov. 24, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.3 M1 development
Next Deadline: 7th December 2020 YP 3.3 M1 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Nov. 26th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Dec. 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Nov. 24th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1.4 should build this week now the CVE work has reached a logical point for the build.
• Master has now opened up for 3.3 development and patches are merging.
• Dunfell has seen a number of CVE report improvements (count of 202 down to 71 in the past three months), either through patches/upgrades or in corrections to the CVE database information, thanks Steve and all those who’ve helped.
• The dunfell CVE improvements have also drastically improved the situation with master.
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur. 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
• The SWAT team has been re-established. A new mailing has been created as swat@lists.yoctoproject.org to support this and a number of member organisations have agreed to help staff this team. We are in the process of getting the process running again and in due course there will be the option of other community members being able to help too. The tools and processes are under review to allow us to optimise the process. Thanks to the members and everyone participating to make this happen!
• There are big improvements underway to the autobuilder display of builds, for example, https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/44/builds/2744 which shows many more individual steps with more detailed information. *There still needs to be improvements to the configuration markup to make best use of this (help welcome!) but this should significantly improve the autobuilder readability.
• There are other ideas being discussed around autobuilder usability improvements such as remembering field history (patch submitted to upstream buildbot), better success/failure count reporting and potential replacement of the buildlog wiki page and autobuilder integration with a specific purpose django app.

Ways to contribute:

• 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 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_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.

YP 3.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.3 M1 build date 2020/12/07
• YP 3.3 M1 Release date 2020/12/18
• YP 3.3 M2 build date 2021/01/18
• YP 3.3 M2 Release date 2021/01/29
• YP 3.3 M3 build date 2021/03/01
• YP 3.3 M3 Release date 2021/03/12
• YP 3.3 M4 build date 2021/04/05
• YP 3.3 M4 Release date 2021/04/30

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.4 build date 2020/11/2
• YP 3.1.4 release date 2020/11/13
• YP 3.2.1 build date 2020/11/16
• YP 3.2.1 release date 2020/12/4
• YP 3.1.5 build date 2021/01/11
• YP 3.1.5 release date 2021/01/22
• YP 3.2.2 build date 2021/02/08
• YP 3.2.2 release date 2021/02/19
• YP 3.1.6 build date 2021/02/22
• YP 3.1.6 release date 2021/03/05
• YP 3.1.7 build date 2021/03/22
• YP 3.1.7 release date 2021/04/02

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2532 (last week 2534) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1279 (last week 1275)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 497 (39%) [last week 497 (39%)]

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