Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 29, 2020

Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M4
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M4 Feature Freeze - Now

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Oct. 1st at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Oct. 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 29th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP M3 rc2 has been through QA. We have resolved the beaglebone and bitbake UI issues, the ptest issues remain and need attention in M4. It is likely M3 rc2 will be released.
• YP 3.1.3 is currently going through QA.
• Unfortunately intermittent autobuilder issues, whilst reduced, do still remain.
• Issues with file mode corruption in pseudo have been identified and we’re concerned this may be going undetected in the majority of cases. The issue uncovered would explain several odd bugs we’ve seen over the last few years where file mode bits have disappeared. There are some experimental pseudo patches available that reduce the impact and frequency of these issues but as yet we don’t have a full solution. We’re hampered by a lack of a pseudo maintainer with both the availability and experience to be able to help.
• 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.

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 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_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 3.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.2 M3 is out of QA and should release soon.
• YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
• YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.3 is built and in QA
• YP 3.1.4 build date 2020/11/2
• YP 3.1.4 release date 2020/11/13

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2481 (last week 2469) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1270 (last week 1268)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 493 (39%) [last week 496 (39%)]

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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