Yocto Project Status WW30`21

Yocto Project Status WW30`21

[Stephen Jolley]

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Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M3

Next Deadline: 23rd Aug. 2021 YP 3.4 M3 build (Feature Freeze)

 

Next Team Meetings:

*	Bug Triage meeting Thursday July 29th at 7:30am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09>
https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*	Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Aug. 3rd at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09>
https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> )
*	Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday July 27th at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09>
https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> )
*	Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

 

Key Status/Updates:

*	YP 3.4 M2 was built and has been through QA however there were two
reported QA issues which have open questions that are being discussed
*	YP 3.3.2 is being built and YP 3.1.10 will follow that into QA
*	Support for the new override syntax was added to bitbake, for now
just translating to the old syntax. This means we can start converting
metadata to the new format. The plan would be to allow the new syntax with
older bitbake too using the same patch, allowing wider compatibility of
metadata layers.
*	We will likely start converting metadata to the new syntax over the
next week as test builds are starting to be fairly successful with OE-Core.
*	There are proposals to add lz4c, zstd and pzstd as required host
commands which we hope will allow better data archiving for license
information and possibly for bitbake hash debugging too. The groundwork for
this change has merged with the autobuilder workers being updated and the
tools added to buildtools-tarball.
*	The prserv rewrite is making progress but still has some issues with
python asyncio.
*	Intermittent issues are ongoing, 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>
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>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*	There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 3.4. See:
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.4_Unassigned_Enha
ncements.2FBugs>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.4_Unassigned_Enhan
cements.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/mai
ntainers.inc>
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/main
tainers.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 is out of QA being reviewed.
*	YP 3.4 M3 build date 2021/08/23 (Feature Freeze)
*	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 is being built.
*	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 2630 (last week 2653) (
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*	OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics

*	Total patches found: 1286 (last week 1287)
*	Patches in the Pending State: 486 (38%) [last week 483 (38%)]

 

The Yocto Project's technical governance is through its Technical Steering
Committee, more information is available at:

 <https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

 

The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status

 

[If anyone has suggestions for other information you'd like to see on this
weekly status update, let us know!]

 

Thanks,

 

Stephen K. Jolley

Yocto Project Program Manager

*    Cell:                (208) 244-4460

* Email:              sjolley.yp.pm@gmail.com
<mailto:sjolley.yp.pm@gmail.com> 

 


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