Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status June 13th, 2023

Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M2
Next Deadline: 17th July 2023 YP 4.3 M2 build date

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 15th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 13th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.3 M1 has passed QA and is due to release
• The 6.1 kernel continues to have stability issues which appear to be introduced between 6.1.26 and 6.1.28, we’ve not seen the issue so far with 6.1.27. We know it happens on 32 and 64 bit x86 and occurs even with just one CPU enabled. This has not been seen by other kernel users which is a concern too.
• We continue to see problematic intermittent failures on the autobuilder. We’re struggling to make progress against these and they are feeling overwhelming. We’re open to ideas on how we might try and address them. Experience shows that if left unresolved/ignored, people do end up hitting them in real world usage or during testing of their own products.
• The autobuilder test matrix has seen some revisions:
  • to split out toolchain testing to a separate target
  • remove some duplicate testing for efficiency
  • optimize reproducibility testing to improve speed

We’re also about to add limited meta-clang testing to the test matrix. These should improve autobuilder test execution time but has made one test race issue much more common which will need to be addressed.

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 is ready for release
• 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 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 2524 (last week 2527) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1161 (last week 1162)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 271 (23%) [last week 271 (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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