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Yocto Project Weekly Status August 6, 2019

Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M3
Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) Aug 25, 2019

SWAT Team Rotation:

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 2.8 M2 is due for release this week
  • YP 2.6.3 is in QA
  • 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
  • This release which was 2.8 will now become 3.0
  • The project is working on some mentor and mentee opportunities. Please see the separate email from Nicolas on the yocto list about this.
  • Patches to bitbake to enable the task scheduler to react to “equivalent” build output have merged. There is more information about this major change in a separate email:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2019-August/285300.html

  • It is hoped this change should improve productivity and reduce rebuilds.
  • In making some of these changes, there were some API changes in bitbake, notably the removal of the bb.build.FuncFailed exception, the signature generator task representation changed and there were some siggen function API changes.

libx11-diet was removed as its not really appropriate on a modern locale aware system.

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:

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

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