Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M2

Next Deadline: YP 2.8 Milestone 2 Cutoff July 14th, 2019

SWAT Team Rotation:

• SWAT lead is currently: Amanda
• SWAT team rotation: Amanda ->  Anuj on July 19, 2019
• SWAT team rotation: Anuj -> Paul on July 26, 2019
• https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday July 18th 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 13th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

Key Status/Updates:

• 2.7.1 is cleared for release and will be announced shortly
• 2.6.3 has two remaining issues before it can be built
• 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
• General patch backlog and merging is running back to normal
• Our numbers of patches in the metadata has been slowly decreasing and I wanted to mention how much we appreciate anyone doing cleanup of old/stale data. Over time it is making a significant difference!
• There are ongoing discussions on a few key topics which are summarised here for convenience. Please contribute if you have an interest in these areas:
• Running the testsuites for glibc/binutils/gcc
• Moving lsb to its own layer
• Removing poky-lsb in favour of some configuration fragments
• Reproducibility
• Minimising python2 dependencies
• Configuration of init systems
• Bitbake changes which change the way runqueue works quite radically have merged. If people see errors with setscene or normal task execution people do report them.
• Runqueue change to optimise sstate usage/sharing in multiconfig builds merged. Please report if its not working where you’d expect it to.

Planned Releases for YP 2.8:

• M2 Cutoff 14th July
• M2 Release 26th July
• M3 Cutoff (Feature Freeze) 25th Aug
• M3 Release 6th Sept
• M4 Cutoff 30th Sept
• 2.8 (M4) Final Release 25th Oct

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 2.7.1 (Warrior) is ready for release.
• YP 2.6.3 (Thud) is intended for build after 2.7.1 is complete and before 2.8 M2

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2498 (last week 2496) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics  
• Total patches found: 1502 (last week 1506)
• Patches in the Pending State: 630 (42%) [last week 634 (42%)]

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 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