Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status May 30th, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M1
Next Deadline: 5th June 2023 YP 4.3 M1 build date

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 1st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 30th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.2.1 and YP 4.0.10 have been released
• M1 is due to build next week.
• We upgraded to gcc 13 after fixes for the major issues in OE-Core were found
• New uninative releases were made to enable support on distros where they’re upgraded to gcc 13 versions.
• The 5.15 kernel was dropped from master in preparation for adding a new kernel version later in the development cycle.
• There is discussion about changing the CVE_CHECK_IGNORE functionality, please comment in the discussion on the list if you have opinions on what we should do there.
• FILE_LAYERNAME support was added to bitbake, paving the way for layer specific override support.
• Autobuilder intermittent issues continue to be an issue. One set of intermittent issues was tracked down in glib tests and a fix was accepted upstream but other issues remain.
• A number of recent changes combined together to lower our overall patch count to the lowest we’re seen in years, it is great to see patches improving over time, albeit slowly!

Ways to contribute:

• As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: patchtest, layerindex, devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
• There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
• There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
• We’d welcome new maintainers for recipes in OE-Core. Please see the list at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and discuss with the existing maintainer, or ask on the OE-Core mailing list. We will likely move a chunk of these to “Unassigned” soon to help facilitate this.
• Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent issues. You can see the list of failures we’re continuing to see by searching for the “AB-INT” tag in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=AB-INT.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.3 M1 build date 2023/06/05
• YP 4.3 M1 Release date 2023/06/16
• YP 4.3 M2 build date 2023/07/17
• YP 4.3 M2 Release date 2023/07/28
• YP 4.3 M3 build date 2023/08/28
• YP 4.3 M3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 4.3 M4 build date 2023/10/02
• YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.10 is released
• YP 4.2.1 is released
• YP 3.1.26 build date 2023/06/19
• YP 3.1.26 Release date 2023/06/30
• YP 4.0.11 build date 2023/06/26
• YP 4.0.11 Release date 2023/07/07
• YP 4.2.2 build date 2023/07/10
• YP 4.2.2 Release date 2023/07/21
• YP 3.1.27 build date 2023/07/31
• YP 3.1.27 Release date 2023/08/11
• YP 4.0.12 build date 2023/08/07
• YP 4.0.12 Release date 2023/08/18
• YP 4.2.3 build date 2023/08/28
• YP 4.2.3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
• YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
• YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
• YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
• YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
• YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
• YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
• YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
• YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
• YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
• YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
• YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
• YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
• YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2522 (last week 2527) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1160 (last week 1198)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 272 (23%) [last week 278 (23%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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

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