Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status January 14, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M2
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Jan. 16th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Fab. 4th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Jan. 14th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Jan. 14th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

Tip of the Week:

• ‘oe-pkgdata-browser’ is a new handy small helper UI added by Ross to visualise the pkgdata held within a build.
• (anyone with tips they’d like to see here, please send to Stephen or Richard)

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1 M2 is due to be built next week.
• Patch merging is roughly on track however there are a number of failures identified with key patches (glibc has a prelink issue on mips, python 3.8 upgrade blocked on uid issue, gstreamer meson transition blocked on nodistro failure). Most of these issues are making progress over time.
• The more worrying aspect is that there are a number of recurring/intermittent failures in the automated testing, mostly from selftest and testimage.
• Looking at the build history, “full” images have built cleanly only once in the past month (3 times in the last two months), which is a pretty shocking statistic which summarises the challenges we face there. Most of these are being procrastinated on by the bug owners since we can’t reproduce them at will. We really need help working on these kinds of issues.
• We have changed the sstate mirrors to be per release, simply to lower the numbers of files in any given sstate directory.
• The triage team is worried about attendance at triage meetings and the project is finding it hard to find people to help fix bugs. If anyone is willing to work on bugs, assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Proposed YP 3.1 Milestone Dates

• YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020
• YP 3.1 M2 release date 1/31/2020
• YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
• YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
• YP 3.1 M4 build date 3/30/2020
• YP 3.1 M4 release date 4/24/2020

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.7.3 build date 2/10/2020
• YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
• YP 3.0.2 build date 2/3/2020
• YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2773 (last week 2773) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1411 (last week 1400)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 562 (40%) [last week 562 (40%)]

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Archives

• 2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive