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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 18, 2021 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status April 16th, 2024 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M1<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 preparing to build rc2 <br/>
Next Deadline: 7th June 2021 YP 3.4 M1 build<br/>
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 build<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 20th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday April 11th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday June 1st at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday April 9th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 18th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2.4 was released
*YP 5.0 rc1 is building but has many (6+) failures in the build so will have to be abandoned.
*YP 3.3.1 is in QA
*The final dunfell build will follow 5.0 into QA.
*Patch merging to master is continuing and we now have a round of AUH upgrades to process. We’ve tried to merge some of the easier ones as there was autobuilder testing availability. This allows people to concentrate on the areas where there are issues with the automated upgrade and where we most need the help.
*The master branch has diverged from scarthgap.
*Anuj is unavailable for a few weeks so Richard will be acting as maintainer for hardknott until he returns (assistance welcome).
*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.
*An open letter about open source project work was sent to various mailing lists highlighting some of the challenges established project face from a resourcing perspective: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/open_source_maintainers_an/82722442
*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.
*The multiconfig changes in bitbake continue to cause problems, we still need simpler test cases to reproduce issues rather than huge builds. The existing patches seem to fix some workloads and break others. Richard is trying to fix but trying to fix autobuilder issues and other problems and these are slow builds to debug.
*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.
*We saw a significant drop in open CVEs reported by the tooling against master this week (63 down to 18) and hopefully many more of these have resolutions “in flight”. This will allow us to focus on the real issues and filter out the legacy noise.
*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.
*SMP was enabled for qemu on arm/x86 and we switched x86 to a more modern cpu/platform
*There are patches for improving the build performance graphs in review. Sample output from the changes is here and here.
*One source of the OOM issues on the autobuilder appears to be glibc usermode testing going out of control and using up all system memory. We are investigating the best way to mitigate that but it accounts for some of our intermittent issues.
*There are also patches under review for the patch/cve metrics page to improve the usability.
*When OOM issues occur an issue was identified in bitbake’s heartbeat events causing bitbake to hang. Ironically this was being heavily used by the recent autobuilder load debugging code. There is a patch pending to address this.
*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.
*A rare sstate manifest corruption bug was tracked down thanks to information from Martin Jansa, a fix has been merged.
*We have enabled more resource control on the autobuilder for xz memory/thread usage as that was contributing to the OOM issues. More investigation is needed into the rpm/deb controls for xz, help there would be appreciated.
*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:'''<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 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_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 3.4 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.4 M1 build date 2021/06/07
*YP 5.0 is building
*YP 3.4 M1 Release date 2021/06/18
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30
*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:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.1 Proposed Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2.4 is in released
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 3.3.1 is in QA
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 3.3.1 release date 2021/05/28
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/24
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/06/04
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 3.1.9 build date 2021/06/21
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 3.1.9 release date 2021/07/02
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 3.3.2 build date 2021/07/19
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25
*YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/07/30
 
*YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.10 release date 2021/08/06
*YP 4.3.4 is released.
*YP 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
*YP 3.1.33 build date 2024-04-15
*YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24
*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 2664 (last week 2674) (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: 1297 (last week 1331)
**Total patches found: 1173 (last week 1174)
**Patches in the Pending State: 494 (38%) [last week 497 (37%)]
**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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*[[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