Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M3

Next Deadline: 28th August 2023 YP 4.3 M3 build date

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.3 M2 rc2 is in QA, rc1 was rebuilt due to concerns about the test results and a desire to set things up well for M3

• YP 3.1.27 has come out of QA but has open questions about toolchain test regressions blocking release

• There were fixes for glibc tests which reduced the number of failures on x86 (32 and 64 bit), thanks Anuj.

• There were further fixes for LTP result reliability after discovering error code and timeout handling issues which answer long standing questions about changes in test results.

• Support for a  new recipe sanity testing task (do_recipe_qa) was merged and there is a hope/plan to move more “processing” operations over to this task to improve general parsing time.

• The pre-release version of autoconf and a gcc stable update were merged.

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 4.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.3_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.

• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics 

• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.3 M2 is in QA

• YP 4.3 M3 build date  2023/08/28

• YP 4.3 M3 Release date 2023/09/08

• YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02

• YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.27 is back from QA

• YP 4.0.12 build date 2023/08/07

• YP 4.0.12 Release date 2023/08/18

• YP 4.2.3 build date 2023/08/28

• YP 4.2.3 Release date 2023/09/08

• YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18

• YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29

• YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25

• YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06

• YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30

• YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10

• YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06

• YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17

• YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13

• YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24

• YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11

• YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22

• YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18

• YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2470 (last week 2487) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)

• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics

• Total patches found: 1181 (last week 1145)

• Patches in the Pending State: 256 (22%) [last week 260 (23%)]

• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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!]