Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status February 21st, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M3 Feature Freeze
Next Deadline: 20th February 2023 YP 4.2 M3 Build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday February 23rd 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday February 21st 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1.23 is due to be released.
• We are due to build M3 and are at feature freeze for YP 4.2.
• We saw further version upgrades this week and a number of bitbake hang fixes or fixes for exits with no output. There are a few remaining issues to conclude then we should be in a good position to build M3.
• CVE levels in master are reducing. The remaining concern is the large number of linux-yocto CVEs which have shown up since we last updated the exclusion lists. The full list can be seen here: https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/cve-status-master.txt
• Help in resolving these so we can remove the exclusion on linux-yocto on all reports would be appreciated.
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

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 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_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

YP 4.2 Milestone Dates:

• 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 3.1.23 is ready for release
• 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:

• WDD 2402 (last week 2407) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1186 (last week 1187)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 277 (23%) [last week 277 (23%)]
• 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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