Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status February 27th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3 - Feature Freeze
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday February 29th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday February 27th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• We are now at feature freeze for 5.0, preparing to build M3
• YP 4.3.3 passed QA and is in review pending release
• The changes which we’d still like to see in 5.0 that have not merged yet are:
  • genericarm64 machine (there is a draft and it is close)
  • QA screenshot comparison
  • sstate permissions issue testcase
• Several changes have merged for M3:
  • ncurses based task dependency explorer (thanks David!)
  • change to rust test suite logging
  • useradd fix
  • dbus configuration security fix
  • bitbake hashserve improvements to better position future server capability/functionality
  • tweaks to support recipe locale support
  • support for BB_LOADFACTOR_MAX load regulation in bitbake when psi is unavailable.
  • further IDE integration tweaks and improvements
• There are also several concerning issues without any clear resolution path at present:
  • rust upgrade blocked by reproducibility issues
  • musl upgrade blocked by large number of unsubmitted pending patches
  • nativesdk-systemd usage broken by usrmerge requirement (we can’t changing the SDK layout now)
  • go isn't upgraded (although there now are partial patches)
• There have been questions about official RISC-V support in this next release, especially since it is an LTS. We will trial qemuriscv64 support in M3 but remove it before the final LTS release as there is no sponsor for that support.

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 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
• 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 5.0 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.0 M3 build date 2024/02/19
• YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
• YP 5.0 M4 build date 2024/04/01
• YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.3.3 is ready for release.
• YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
• YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
• YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
• YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
• YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
• YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
• YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
• YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
• YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
• YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
• YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
• YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2633 (last week 2636) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1144 (last week 1145)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 250 (22%) [last week 250 (22%)]
• 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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