Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M3

Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) Aug 25, 2019

SWAT Team Rotation:

• SWAT lead is currently: Ross
• SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Amanda on Aug. 9, 2019
• SWAT team rotation: Amanda -> Chen on Aug. 16, 2019
• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday August 8th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday August 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
• Twitch - Next event is Tuesday August 6th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 2.8 M2 is due for release this week
• YP 2.6.3 is in QA
• We have a new “newcomer” bug category which are bugs suited to someone new to the project. These can be seen here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Newcomer_Bugs
• This release which was 2.8 will now become 3.0
• The project is working on some mentor and mentee opportunities. Please see the separate email from Nicolas on the yocto list about this.
• Patches to bitbake to enable the task scheduler to react to “equivalent” build output have merged. There is more information about this major change in a separate email:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2019-August/285300.html

It is hoped this change should improve productivity and reduce rebuilds.

• In making some of these changes, there were some API changes in bitbake, notably the removal of the bb.build.FuncFailed exception, the signature generator task representation changed and there were some siggen function API changes.
• libx11-diet was removed as its not really appropriate on a modern locale aware system.

Planned Releases for YP 3.0 {2.8}:

• M2 is out of QA and being reviewed.
• M2 Release 26th July
• M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) 25th Aug
• M3 Release 6th Sept
• M4 Cutoff 30th Sept - this will be YP 3.0.
• YP 3.0 {2.8 (M4)} Final Release 25th Oct

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.7.2 (Warrior) is planned for after 2.8 M2 release.
• YP 2.6.3 (Thud) is iin QA.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2481 (last week 2466) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics  
• Total patches found: 1496 (last week 1498)
• Patches in the Pending State: 615 (41%) [last week 619 (41%)]

Key Status Links for YP:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.8_Status

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Schedule

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Features

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

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

The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at: 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 Project Manager

( Cell:                (208) 244-4460

* Email: sjolley.yp.pm@gmail.com