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Yocto Project Weekly Status September 3, 2019

Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M4 Feature Freeze
Next Deadline: YP 3.0 Final Release 25th Oct

SWAT Team Rotation:

  • SWAT lead is currently: Armin
  • SWAT team rotation: Armin -> Paul on Sept. 6, 2019
  • SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Sept. 13, 2019
    //wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • We’re now in feature freeze for 3.0 and working on bug fixing for final release
  • Several key 3.0 changes have now merged:
    • 5.2 linux-libc-kernel-headers
    • 5.2 kernel recipes
    • Removal of LSB and poky-lsb and replacement with alt config testing
    • Patches have significantly reduced the dependency on python2
    • Reproducible builds are now being tested for core-image-minimal
  • There are the following changes still under discussion/testing:
    • Systemd vs. sysvinit defaults (maybe for the poky alternative configuration tests)
    • Making 5.2 the default kernel for qemu (has regressions, see below)
    • Hashserv performance issue resolution
    • Final configuration of hash equivalency
    • toolchain testsuite patch series
  • The sstate hash equivalency continues to have challenges:
    • we need to rework the client/server communication to scale to the autobuilder
    • there are some bugs in the code the autobuilder continues to expose
    • we have cases where its not 100% clear what the correct behaviour should be
    • test cases are proving to be problematic to write in a maintainable way
  • Patch merging is roughly up to date again
  • We have several significant problematic bugs that are being worked on:
    • 5.2 stap build issue on qemuarm
    • 5.2 kprobes error message (qemuarm64, qemumips64)
    • qemumips machine hang

8If anyone has any status items for the project they’d like to add to the weekly reports, please email Richard+Stephen.

Planned Releases for YP 3.0 {2.8}:

  • M3 Release 6th Sept
  • M4 Cutoff 30th Sept - this will be YP 3.0.
  • YP 3.0 {2.8 (M4)} Final Release 25th Oct

Planned upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 2.7.2 (Warrior) is planned for after YP 3.0 release.
  • YP 2.6.4 (Thud) is planned for after YP 2.7.2 release.

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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