Current Dev Position: YP 4.1 M3 (Feature Freeze)

Next Deadline: 22nd August 2022 YP 4.1 M3 Build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 8th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday September 6th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• We are now at feature freeze for 4.1 but M3 has not been built yet.
• Many of the blocking issues for M3 have been resolved including:
• perl build hangs
• cve-check database issues
• hash-equiv file not found issues on local domain sockets
• layer setup changes merged
• rust upgrade merged
• libgcrypt ptest issues on ARM is potentially fixed
• llvm build path corruption in mesa was resolved
• rust ppc patch was revised
• llvm-config handling in core was reworked
• nativesdk-gcc issue breaking rust SDK tests was identified and fixed
• a checksum mismatch race issue in bitbake’s fetcher code was fixed
• Thanks to everyone who helped work on and resolve these, it will significantly improve the release and autobuilder stability during testing.
• There is still an issue with rust SDK failures on ubuntu1804 to resolve before M3 can build
• The rust selftest changes are looking unlikely to merge as they don’t pass during testing yet and one of the precursor patches causes buildpath issues. Some precursor patches did merge.
• 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

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 4.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.1_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 us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics

YP 4.1 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.1 M3 build date 2022/08/22
• YP 4.1 M3 Release date 2022/09/02
• YP 4.1 M4 build date 2022/10/03
• YP 4.1 M4 Release date 2022/10/28

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.4 build date 2022/09/19
• YP 4.0.4 Release date 2022/09/30
• YP 3.1.20 build date 2022/10/10
• YP 3.1.20 Release date 2022/10/21
• YP 4.0.5 build date 2022/10/31
• YP 4.0.5 Release date 2022/11/11

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2459 (last week 2469) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
• Total patches found: 1221 (last week 1224)
• Patches in the Pending State: 314 (26%) [last week 329 (27%)]
• 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!]

Thanks,

Stephen K. Jolley

Yocto Project Program Manager

( Cell:                (208) 244-4460

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