Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Apr. 27, 2021

Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M1
Next Deadline: 7th June 2021 YP 3.4 M1 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Apr. 29th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday May 4th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Apr. 27th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.3 has been released. Thanks go to everyone who contributed to it!
• YP 3.1.7 has come cleanly through QA and is pending TSC approval for release.
• The YP TSC has now served for two years, thanks go to the outgoing TSC (Armin, Denys, Khem, Richard, Ross) who have been instrumental in a number of significant project developments over that time such as the LTS, definition of processes and resourcing the project. Some of the work isn’t immediately obvious but has shaped the project and should ensure a stable and positive future direction.
• New TSC members are now being chosen for the next two years. Three of the TSC seats have now been (re-)elected by the YP members and those seats are being filled by Richard (chair), Khem and Ross. Two are elected by the OE community and there will be a call for candidates coming soon from the OE board to the OE membership.
• The master branch has opened for 3.4 development and a number of patches queued during release of 3.3 have now merged.
• There may be interest in a new command, “bitbake-getvar” being proposed on the bitbake mailing list and in master-next. This makes it easier to see the history of a single variable and also makes a neat example of using the tinfoil API. We are also considering other similar helper commands (maybe along the lines of the ‘bb’ tool) with a view to making things easier for new users.
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur and are now at a record high level. 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 We are working to identify the load pattern on the infrastructure that seems to trigger these.

Ways to contribute:

• 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 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_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.

YP 3.4 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.4 M1 build date 2021/06/07
• YP 3.4 M1 Release date 2021/06/18
• YP 3.4 M2 build date 2021/07/12
• YP 3.4 M2 Release date 2021/07/23
• YP 3.4 M3 build date 2021/08/23
• YP 3.4 M3 Release date 2021/09/03
• YP 3.4 M4 build date 2021/10/04
• YP 3.4 M4 Release date 2021/10/29

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.7 has been released.
• YP 3.2.4 build date 2021/05/3
• YP 3.2.4 release date 2021/05/14
• YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/17
• YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/05/28
• YP 3.3.1 build date 2021/05/24
• YP 3.3.1 release date 2021/06/04
• YP 3.1.9 build date 2021/06/21
• YP 3.1.9 release date 2021/07/02
• YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
• YP 3.1.10 release date 2021/08/06
• YP 3.3.2 build date 2021/08/09
• YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/08/20
• YP 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
• YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2645 (last week 2745) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1314 (last week 1287)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 496 (38%) [last week 493 (38%)]

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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