Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status February 27th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3 - Feature Freeze
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday February 29th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday February 27th at 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 5.0, preparing to build M3
• YP 4.3.3 is in QA.
• The changes which we’d still like to see in 5.0 that have not merged yet are:
  • genericarm64 machine
  • change to rust test suite logging
  • useradd fix
  • sstate permissions issue testcase
• Big thanks to those who submitted their changes before the deadline!
• There are also several concerning issues without any clear resolution path at present:
  • rust upgrade blocked by reproducibility issues
  • musl upgrade blocked by large number of unsubmitted pending patches
  • nativesdk-systemd usage broken by usrmerge requirement (we can’t changing the SDK layout now)
  • go isn't upgraded
  • concern about dbus configure flags for testing
• There are several significant and useful changes which have merged recently:
  • Improvements to devtool to use git notes
  • devtool IDE support
  • Hashserve improvements (cleanup API, parallel queries, existence API)
  • oe-setup-build script merged
  • python_mesonpy support
  • various git fetcher fixes/tweaks
  • vscode integration improvements
  • CVE fixes or exclusion list tweaks
• There have been questions about official RISC-V support in this next release, especially since it is an LTS. There is the potential to do this since the configurations have been written and are close to working. We’re wondering about trial testing this for M3 as a proof of concept. Without higher tier project membership support, this will not make it into the LTS final release though.

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 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_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.

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

• 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 4.3.3 is ready for release.
• 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 2633 (last week 2636) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1144 (last week 1145)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 250 (22%) [last week 250 (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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