Weekly Status
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Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 10th, 2024
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 Feature Freeze and Bug Fixing
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M4 Build 30 Sept. 2024
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 12th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 10th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 5.1 M3 is due to be released
- YP 4.0.21 is in QA
- We are now at feature freeze and working on bug fixing for the final 5.1 release builds
- Due to timing of autobuilder infrastructure changes, vacations, no release blocking bugs and also seemingly limited availability of people to help with general bug fixing, we are considering an early M4 build, maybe even this week. If that would cause problems for anyone, please let Richard/the TSC know ASAP.
- Support for TCLIBCAPPEND was dropped.
- We updated to only support the “styhead” layer series namespace.
- The new autobuilder infrastructure is showing a number of challenges including some new bugs, new intermittent issues, challenges with new distros and a new reproducibility issue but we’re working through them
- There is discussion around configuration file markup/syntax related to fragment management on the architecture list, targeting 5.2.
- Upcoming Event: For those attending OSS EU in Vienna, Yocto Project Developer Day Sept. 19th 9am-5pm.
- Register here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/features/co-located-events/#yocto-project-developer-day
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: 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 is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
- 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 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
- 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.
Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2734 (last week 2764) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1067 (last week 1057)
- Patches in the Pending State: 176 (16%) [last week 177 (17%)]
- https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/
YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:
- YP 5.1 M3 is ready for release.
- YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
- YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25
Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 4.0.21 is in QA.
- YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
- YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
- YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
- YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
- YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
- YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
- YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
- YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29
The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC