Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status March 24, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M4 - Stabilization
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M4 build date 3/30/2020

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Mar. 26th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Apr. 7th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Mar. 24th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - See http://www.twitch.tv/letoatreidesthe2nd

Key Status/Updates:

• M3 is through QA and due to be released.
• The first M4 rc candidate is due to be built on Monday.
• YP 3.1 has been announced as an LTS release: https://www.yoctoproject.org/yocto-project-long-term-support-announced/
• We’ve uncovered significant issues with the datastore connector approach in tinfoil. There is a proposed fix which effectively rewrites it which is not something undertaken lightly at this point in release but reluctantly, is probably necessary.
• The focus is now on stabilizing and bug fixing for the final release

Proposed YP 3.1 Milestone Dates

• YP 3.1 M3 being reviewed for release
• YP 3.1 M4 build date 3/30/2020
• YP 3.1 M4 release date 4/24/2020

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.0.3 build date 5/4/2020
• YP 3.0.3 release date 5/15/2020
• YP 2.7.4 build date 5/18/2020
• YP 2.7.4 release date 5/29/2020

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2681 (last week 2698) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1350 (last week 1351)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 535 (40%) [last week 534 (40%)]

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

Archives

• 2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
• 2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive