Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status July 20, 2021

Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M2
Next Deadline: 12th July 2021 YP 3.4 M2 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday July 22nd at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Aug. 3rd at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday July 20th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• An issue with eSDK being host specific due to pseudo-native host dependencies has been resolved and this should resolve a number of bugs being reported by the community around use of the eSDK.
• The prserv rewrite is still pending on resolving the issues with python asyncio.
• We are continuing to make progress on the intermittent autobuilder failures. A race was identified in the qemu networking lock handling and there were some reproducibility fixes. Tweaks have been made to the autobuilder configuration such as avoiding key generation in more cases which it is believed may have been running into entropy shortages on the hosts, or just hitting CPU load issues. Some ptest improvements have also been made.
• Despite this progress, we continue to see intermittent issues, particularly ptest ones. Help is very much welcome on these 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
• 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 and current test cases are very slow to work with.

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 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 3.3.2 build date 2021/07/19
• YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/07/30
• YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
• YP 3.1.10 release date 2021/08/06
• YP 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
• YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2653 (last week 2658) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1287 (last week 1284)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 483 (38%) [last week 480 (37%)]

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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