Weekly Status
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Yocto Project Weekly Status July 30, 2019
Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M3
Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) Aug 25, 2019
SWAT Team Rotation:
- SWAT lead is currently: Paul
- SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Aug. 2, 2019
- SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Amanda on Aug. 9, 2019
- https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday August 1st at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
- Monthly Project Meeting August 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
- Twitch - Next event is August 6th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 2.8 M2 rc1 is in QA which is due to complete on Wednesday
- YP 2.6.3 will build to go into QA on Wednesday
- 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
- The Yocto Project TSC has determined how it plans to operate and put the details into the appropriate wiki page: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC. It is intended as a decision making body of last resort, if there are issues people wish it to address, please raise them with one of its members.
- After discussion in various places its been agreed that the next project release will be “3.0”, to replace “2.8”. The 2.8 placeholder may continue to be used, particularly in the bugzilla. There are many good reasons to bump the version, the most recent being the runqueue changes allowing build optimizations based upon output equivalence (see below) but also including the new project governance, the autobuilder, improved test coverage any many other things.
- There are patches available which enable runqueue optimisations based on output comparisons of tasks. This removes the need to run later tasks if the output is unchanged and is based upon the previous hash equivalence server work. This feature should be a significant win for the users and is now working to a level where we’ll likely make this a key feature of the next release. These patches are being tested in master-next at present.
- There are also changes in -next which are being considered which change several bitbake APIs around runqueue. The feeling is now may be the best time to clean up several interfaces. If there are other API fixes people want to see, now is a good time to mention them.
- The project is working on some mentor and mentee opportunities. Please see the separate email from Nicolas on the yocto list about this.
Planned Releases for YP 2.8:
- M2 is in QA
- 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 2.7.2 (Warrior) is planned for after 2.8 M2 release.
- YP 2.6.3 (Thud) is intended for build after 2.7.1 is complete and before 2.8 M3.
Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2483 (last week 2489) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1499 (last week 1502)
- Patches in the Pending State: 623 (42%) [last week 630 (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
