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Yocto Project Weekly Status September 26th, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M4 (Feature Freeze)
Next Deadline: 2nd October 2023 YP 4.3 M4 build date

Next Team Meetings:

Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 28st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 26th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

YP 4.3 M3 rc1 was released and work is being done on the autobuilder QA email step to improve for future releases. The regression report is still being worked on.
YP 3.1.28 is under review for release
YP 4.0.13 rc2 is in QA
The numpy reproducibility issue remains and is proving extremely problematic with many failed builds. We may have to merge the debug patch into master.
The openssh ptest intermittent failure does have better logs available but we’ve yet to decode what it means: http://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20230917-2/testresults/qemuarm64-ptest/openssh.log
The changes to error for overlapping symlinks under sstate control have highlighted some issues, particularly in world build configurations however so far these have proven to be real issues that needed addressing in the configuration as the files overlapped and caused determinism issues.
The number of build failures from incoming patches remains high and is causing patch review delays and headaches for the maintainers. We are not here to debug people’s patches, we’re only meant to be catching accidental/occasional issues.
Patches for enabling wider SPDX tooling and testing in core are being proposed but there are quite a few python module dependencies. We do have good tooling/class support for python modules so the maintenance overhead of these is relatively low but the number of modules in core has increased steadily. Feedback welcome.
Since the 6.4 kernel is already EOL, we are considering a 6.5 kernel for 4.3 as the best of several difficult options.
The project is working on improving its security processes and policies, there are emails on the mailing list discussing this. Please highlight these to any parties who may be interested or have useful feedback.

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
We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:

YP 4.3 M3 was released.
YP 4.3 M4 build date 2023/10/02
YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

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 3.1.28 is ready for release
YP 4.0.13 is in QA
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 2475 (last week 2505) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1183 (last week 1185)
- Patches in the Pending State: 254 (21%) [last week 255 (22%)]
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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-== Yocto Project Weekly Status September 19th, 2023 ==
+== Yocto Project Weekly Status September 26th, 2023 ==
 Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M4 (Feature Freeze)<br/>
 Next Deadline: 2nd October 2023 YP 4.3 M4 build date<br/>
 '''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
-*Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 21st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
+*Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 28st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
-*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 19th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
+*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 26th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
 *Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
 '''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
-*The M3 rc1 QA report is available but the regression report failed, raising a dilemma on whether to release, the TSC needs to discuss
+*YP 4.3 M3 rc1 was released and work is being done on the autobuilder QA email step to improve for future releases. The regression report is still being worked on.
-*YP 3.1.28 is in QA
+*YP 3.1.28 is under review for release
-*The numpy reproducibility issue remains
+*YP 4.0.13 rc2 is in QA
+*The numpy reproducibility issue remains and is proving extremely problematic with many failed builds. We may have to merge the debug patch into master.
 *The openssh ptest intermittent failure does have better logs available but we’ve yet to decode what it means: http://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20230917-2/testresults/qemuarm64-ptest/openssh.log
-*A significant flaw was found in bitbake’s inotify usage which has been causing rare intermittent build failures. These would only affect usage where BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT was enabled or tinfoil was used (e.g. recipetool, devtool, bitbake-layers). The issue means we’ve switched to using stat() calls and mtime to detect changes. External tools using tinfoil which change files will need to add an API call to have bitbake refresh its caches.
+*The changes to error for overlapping symlinks under sstate control have highlighted some issues, particularly in world build configurations however so far these have proven to be real issues that needed addressing in the configuration as the files overlapped and caused determinism issues.
-*On a positive note, those issues do explain some of the timeout and AB-INT failures that have been puzzling us for some time. Fixing it also allows the flush() call removal in server logging, which should improve bitbake server’s performance during heavy I/O.
+*The number of build failures from incoming patches remains high and is causing patch review delays and headaches for the maintainers. We are not here to debug people’s patches, we’re only meant to be catching accidental/occasional issues.
-*There are patches pending to tweak the layout of deploy/licenses/ and SPDX’s file layout to avoid overlapping files in builds breaking due to “shared” files being removed unexpectedly. We will likely enforce non-overlapping files for symlinks under sstate control going forward to avoid these issues in future.
+*Patches for enabling wider SPDX tooling and testing in core are being proposed but there are quite a few python module dependencies. We do have good tooling/class support for python modules so the maintenance overhead of these is relatively low but the number of modules in core has increased steadily. Feedback welcome.
-*We are continuing to see large numbers of version upgrades of recipes, some of which are having destabilizing effects. This may mean we have to reduce the numbers being accepted to stabilize for release.
+*Since the 6.4 kernel is already EOL, we are considering a 6.5 kernel for 4.3 as the best of several difficult options.
-*We’re happy to be able to announce that some of the work in the RFQ will now be progressing, specifically that:
+*The project is working on improving its security processes and policies, there are emails on the mailing list discussing this. Please highlight these to any parties who may be interested or have useful feedback.
-**Marta Rybczynska (Syslinbit) will be working on the security topic
-**Alexander Kanvin (Linutronix) will be working on the core workflow topic
-**Savoir-faire Linux will be working on the toaster and VSCode topics
-**BayLibre will be working on the patchtest and project tooling topics
-**Michael Opdenacker (Bootlin) will be working on the binary distro topic
-**Smile will be working on the meta-openembedded topic area
-We’d also note that Tim Orling (Konsulko) will be working on the layer index.
 '''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
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 '''YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
-*YP 4.3 M3 is being reviewed.
+*YP 4.3 M3 was released.
 *YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02
 *YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27
+'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
+*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:'''<br/>
-*YP 3.1.28 in QA
+*YP 3.1.28 is ready for release
-*YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
+*YP 4.0.13 is in QA
-*YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
 *YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
 *YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
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 *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:'''<br/>
-*WDD 2505 (last week 2530) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
+*WDD 2475 (last week 2505) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
 *OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
-**Total patches found: 1185 (last week 1186)
+**Total patches found: 1183 (last week 1185)
-**Patches in the Pending State: 255 (22%) [last week 255 (22%)]
+**Patches in the Pending State: 254 (21%) [last week 255 (22%)]
 *https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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