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== Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 22, 2020 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status April 16th, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M3<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 preparing to build rc2 <br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M3 Feature Freeze - Now<br/>
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 build<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 24th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday April 11th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Oct. 6th at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday April 9th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 22th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*M3 rc1 has been built and been through QA. Unfortunately beaglebone fails to boot so we’ll have to go to an rc2. There were 4 other issues reported by QA too (3 ptest regressions and a bitbake UI issue).
*YP 5.0 rc1 is building but has many (6+) failures in the build so will have to be abandoned.
*We plan to build 3.1.3 imminently
*The final dunfell build will follow 5.0 into QA.
*The sphinx documentation transition has merged. There is still work needed to clean up various links and other conversion glitches as well as areas the manual needs to be brought up to date. Any help much appreciated. Big thanks to Nico for driving this!
*The master branch has diverged from scarthgap.
*The new documentation can be seen at  https://docs.yoctoproject.org/,
*For 5.0, we were able to switch to the new hash equivalence server however the need for websockets complicated the worker configuration and needed new buildtools tarball versions which are causing various problems.
*One significant potential cause for autobuilder timeout issues has been identified, potentially the journal on ext4 filesystems was causing IO prioritisation to fail as the journal only runs with one IO level. We’ve modified the journal options on autobuilder workers to be “writeback” to avoid this. This should reduce autobuilder bitbake timeout issues.
*During the rc1 build as well as pip and setuptools issues within buildtools, we also saw a qemuppc boot issue, an instance of the spdx dependency problem, an sstate mirror issue and a github network error. This highlights how important fixing these is over the release cycle. The volume of these may impact our ability to maintain the LTS.
*Two of the three significant autobuilder issues mentioned last week remain:
*Thanks to everyone who sent documentation patches, we’re in much better shape with the migration guide and release notes now. Further improvements are still very welcome.
**qemumips fails with systemd with 256MB memory, it needs 512MB. If we enable 512MB, we see random hangs. Unless someone can debug and sort the qemu memory issues, we may end up disabling core-image-sato-sdk and core-image-full-cmdline for qemumips+systemd
*The “Binary Distro” work is now well underway and there are PR Server passthrough and image testing patches under review. The wiki page has had a number of policy/process proposals documented, help is welcome to help improve these, or highlight where further documentation is needed.
**networking with qemu images appears to glitch at times (particularly slower targets such as ltp and qemumips), the session stalls with “no route to host”. We need better serial interrogation to determine the state of qemu when this happens, it's unclear if qemu/kernel hangs, networking fails or what is breaking. Help to add this extra debugging would be much appreciated.
*There are patches for improving the build performance graphs in review. Sample output from the changes is here and here.
*There are new autobuilder issues this week, a pseudo bug appears to be being exposed as well as new intermittent issues, as yet not looked into.
*There are also patches under review for the patch/cve metrics page to improve the usability.
*We continue to struggle with a number of autobuilder intermittent bugs. 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 with any of these would be much appreciated, unfortunately it is proving hard to find anyone interested in helping figure these out and they significantly hamper our testing.
*We continue to watch the NIST NVD (CVE database) situation, the recent update didn’t clarify much. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a clear path forward as yet but using data directly from MITRE may help give partial information. These issues are making it hard to know what to include in the 5.0 release as it isn’t clear which changes are security related.


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*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: 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 identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
*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.
*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 3.2 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2 M3 is out of QA and will be rebuilt
*YP 5.0 is building
*YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30
*YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Proposed Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.3 build date 2020/9/14
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 3.1.3 release date 2020/9/25
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 3.1.4 build date 2020/11/2
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 3.1.4 release date 2020/11/13
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.3.4 is released.
*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
 
'''Upcoming Proposed dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.1 Build Date 2024-05-13
*YP 5.0.1 Release Date 2024-05-24
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
*YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
*YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
*YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
*YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
*YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
*YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
*YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
*YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
*YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2469 (last week 2466) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2719 (last week 2696) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1268 (last week 1258)
**Total patches found: 1173 (last week 1174)
**Patches in the Pending State: 496 (39%) [last week 496 (39%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 249 (21%) [last week 249 (21%)]
*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:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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== Archives ==
== Archives ==
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*[[2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
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Revision as of 14:37, 16 April 2024

Yocto Project Weekly Status April 16th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 preparing to build rc2
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.0 rc1 is building but has many (6+) failures in the build so will have to be abandoned.
  • The final dunfell build will follow 5.0 into QA.
  • The master branch has diverged from scarthgap.
  • For 5.0, we were able to switch to the new hash equivalence server however the need for websockets complicated the worker configuration and needed new buildtools tarball versions which are causing various problems.
  • During the rc1 build as well as pip and setuptools issues within buildtools, we also saw a qemuppc boot issue, an instance of the spdx dependency problem, an sstate mirror issue and a github network error. This highlights how important fixing these is over the release cycle. The volume of these may impact our ability to maintain the LTS.
  • Thanks to everyone who sent documentation patches, we’re in much better shape with the migration guide and release notes now. Further improvements are still very welcome.
  • The “Binary Distro” work is now well underway and there are PR Server passthrough and image testing patches under review. The wiki page has had a number of policy/process proposals documented, help is welcome to help improve these, or highlight where further documentation is needed.
  • There are patches for improving the build performance graphs in review. Sample output from the changes is here and here.
  • There are also patches under review for the patch/cve metrics page to improve the usability.
  • We continue to watch the NIST NVD (CVE database) situation, the recent update didn’t clarify much. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a clear path forward as yet but using data directly from MITRE may help give partial information. These issues are making it hard to know what to include in the 5.0 release as it isn’t clear which changes are security related.

Ways to contribute:

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.0 is building
  • YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

YP 5.1 Proposed Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
  • YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
  • YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
  • YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
  • YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
  • YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
  • YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
  • YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 4.3.4 is released.
  • 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

Upcoming Proposed dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.1 Build Date 2024-05-13
  • YP 5.0.1 Release Date 2024-05-24
  • YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
  • YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
  • YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
  • YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
  • YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
  • YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
  • YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
  • YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
  • YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
  • YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
  • YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
  • YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
  • YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
  • YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
  • YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
  • YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29

Tracking Metrics:

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

Archives