Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M2

Next Deadline: 23th January 2023 YP 4.2 M2 Build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

YP 4.2 M1 and YP 4.0.6 passed QA and are due for release.
Builds on the autobuilder are problematic at present due to connection losses with the controller machine. We understand the cause and will be migrating the controller to a new server/location to address this.
That, combined with OOM issues from recent bitbake cache changes meant patches are merging more slowly this week.
There are a number of bitbake patches pending which are a bit more invasive than usual. These are aiming to address:

memory issues seen with the recent cache changes and bitbake -S
UI hangs where the bitbake server has crashed/hung or otherwise failed
issues where bitbake may have removed another server instances bitbake.sock network socket file
console interaction issues where bitbake may not respond to Ctrl+C
event handler race issues around datastore accesses

The OE TSC decided in favour of adding export flag expansion despite the performance impact so that patch will be queued.
CVE levels in master are concerning again
With some debugging, the bitbake.sock disappearance was potentially identified and also issues with OOM process killing locking up bitbake’s server and UI were studied.
We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
There will be no status report next week, the next will be 3rd January 2023.

Ways to contribute:

As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: patchtest, layerindex, devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
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 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_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.
Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent 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.
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YP 4.2 Milestone Dates:

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

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 Program Manager

( Cell: (208) 244-4460