Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status September 12th, 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 14th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 12th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• We are now at feature freeze for 4.3.
• YP 4.2.3 was released
• The qemupcc issue was tracked down to the glibc 2.38 included in the new uninative version. Upgrading along the glibc stable branch appeared to resolve the issue. It seems ppc was worst affected as the emulation is slow.
• We’re hoping to have tracked down the numpy reproducibility issue to non-deterministic blas library queries but we didn’t definitively work out which system was introducing the issue so we can’t be sure it is resolved.
• We need to upgrade to qemu 8.1.0 for security fixes but it is broken for x86. If we backport fixes for that issue, mips virtio breaks. We’ve filed a bug upstream: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1866
• Patches have been resubmitted to radically alter the do_unpack process for license compliance reasons. The code is complex and hard to understand and will have a performance impact on builds as well as making things hard to debug. *The risk of not taking the changes is that for some legal departments, the SPDX data isn’t detailed enough. The compromise between performance and ease of use vs. legal requirements is a tough one. We don’t really want to have two codepaths either. Feedback/review on the series welcome.
• We continue to see intermittent ptest failures for glib-networking and openssh, help would be much appreciated.
• Due to the number of issues related to mips and ppc being encountered with few people interested in helping fix them, we are likely to reduce the amount of testing being done on those targets before release. If you’re using these targets please let us know as we’re likely to drop them if there are no users.
• M3 will build when we have a resolution to the qemu 8.1.0 issue and ideally fixes for the intermittent ptest issues.
• We’re happy to be able to announce that some of the work in the RFQ will now be progressing, specifically that:
  • Marta Rybczynska will be working on the security topic
  • Alexander Kanvin 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

The other remaining topic areas should be announced soon. We’d also note that Tim Orling (Konsulko) will be working on the layer index.

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 is in QA
• YP 4.3 M4 build date 2023/10/02
• YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
• YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
• YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
• 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
• 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 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

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2530 (last week 2500) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1186 (last week 1185)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 255 (22%) [last week 254 (21%)]
• 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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