Weekly Status
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Yocto Project Weekly Status May 14, 2019
Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M1
Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone 1 Cutoff June 9th, 2019
SWAT Team Rotation:
- SWAT lead is currently: Amanda
- SWAT team rotation: Amanda -> Ross on May. 17, 2019
- SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Chen on May. 24, 2019
- https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 16th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
- Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday June 4th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
Key Status/Updates:
- Stephen is going to be unavailable for several weeks, please refer any queries to Richard
- The final 2.8 planning meeting was held. The google doc summarising the discussions so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNEKA4d0eT6-e0hnS2pwi7xdZ5_t6smpZO2HbaJGXbU/
- If people are planning to work on specific things in 2.8 please let us know so we can incorporate this into our plans. If you’re interested in working on anything in the document, please also let us know or talk with us in one of the planning meetings.
- Most items planned to be worked upon should now be in the bugzilla with appropriately detailed entries there.
- A summary of the 2.8 planning risk items was included in an email to the yocto-ab list:https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto-ab/2019-May/002334.html
- The project is planning to adopt SPDX license headers in its source code where practical, OE-Core now has the markup on its scripts too.
- Mailing lists are moving to groups.io instead of our current mailman setup on 27th May. This shouldn’t impact users directly, more details will be sent to the mailing lists in due course.
- We have a new “newcomer” bug category which are bugs suited to someone new to the project. These can be seen here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Newcomer_Bugs
- We’re about ready to switch over to gcc 9 by default with one more issue needing to be resolved on mips.
- We’re likely going to change the tuning of qemux86 to something more modern
- We’re likely to drop openssl 1.0 and irda from OE-Core imminently
Planned Releases for YP 2.8:
- M1 Cutoff June 9th
- M1 Release June 21st
- M2 Cutoff 14th July
- M2 Release 26th July
- M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) 25th Aug
- M3 Release 6th Sept
- M4 Cutoff 30th Sept
- 2.8 (M4) Final Release 25th Oct
Planned upcoming dot releases:
- YP 2.6.3 (Thud) is in planning
- YP 2.7.1 (Warrior) is in planning
Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2596 (last week 2602) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1560 (last week 1558)
- Patches in the Pending State: 665 (43%) [last week 655 (42%)]
Key Status Links for YP:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.8_Status
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Schedule
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Features
