Yocto Project Status WW04'20

Yocto Project Status WW04'20

[sjolley.yp.pm]

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Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M2

Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020

 

Next Team Meetings:

*	Bug Triage meeting Thursday Jan. 23th  at 7:30am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/454367603> https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*	Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Feb. 4th  at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*	Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Jan. 21th at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*	Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Feb. 11th at 8am PDT (
<https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project> https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

 

Tip of the Week:

*	'You can quickly test a change to a recipe on a target by rebuilding
it alone, then rsyncing pieces of WORKDIR/image/ or
WORKDIR/packages-split/PACKAGENAME/ rather than rebuilding the image (bit of
a hack but effective).
*	(anyone with tips they'd like to see here, please send to Stephen or
Richard)

 

Key Status/Updates:

*	YP 3.1 M2 will build shortly, the only remaining blocking issue is
the buildtools-extended-tarball fixes which should happen today.
*	Python 2 has been finally removed from OE-Core. This was long
scheduled and whilst its causing problems for other layers, we really need
to resolve those issues now rather than later in the release cycle so it is
the right time to finally do this.
*	Patch merging continues to be making good progress and staying
roughly up to date.
*	The patch metrics showed significant improvement this week, partly
from continuing work done by Alex Kanavin in keeping things up to date but
also from the python2 removal.
*	Bruce is struggling to get the 5.4 kernel to work on all platforms
and any help, particularly with MIPS would be much appreciated. This is
blocking the kernel updates at this point.
*	We're starting to see problems as distros enable seccomp in file
which then conflicts with our use of pseudo. We need to come up with a
better fix but for now, a wrapper script which adds "-S" to the command line
for file, injected into PATH is a workaround.
*	There is continued concern about the number of
recurring/intermittent failures in the automated testing, mostly from
selftest and testimage.
*	There is a separate email about buildtools tarballs continuing
toolchains to support building on wider combinations of host distros, please
see that for more info if interested in this.
*	We continue to struggle to get clean 'full' builds.
*	The triage team is worried about attendance at triage meetings and
the project is finding it hard to find people to help fix bugs. If anyone is
willing to work on bugs, assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

YP 3.1 Milestone Dates:

*	YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020
*	YP 3.1 M2 release date 1/31/2020
*	YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
*	YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
*	YP 3.1 M4 build date  3/30/2020
*	YP 3.1 M4 release date  4/24/2020

 

Planned upcoming dot releases:

*	YP 2.7.3 build date  2/10/2020
*	YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
*	YP 3.0.2 build date  2/3/2020
*	YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020

 

Tracking Metrics:

*	WDD 2758 (last week 2772) (
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*	Poky Patch Metrics  

*	Total patches found: 1357 (last week 1411)
*	Patches in the Pending State: 536 (39%) [last week 562 (40%)]

 

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

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

 

The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status>
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
<mailto:sjolley.yp.pm@gmail.com> 

 


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Yocto Project Status WW04'20

[sjolley.yp.pm]

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Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M3

Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M2 in QA - release 1/31/20

 

Next Team Meetings:

*	Bug Triage meeting Thursday Jan. 30th  at 7:30am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/454367603> https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*	Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Feb. 4th  at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*	Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Jan. 28th at 8am PDT (
<https://zoom.us/j/990892712> https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*	Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Feb. 11th at 8am PDT (
<https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project> https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)

 

Tip of the Week:

*	The scripts in ${WORKDIR}/temp/run.XXX for shell tasks can be
quickly hacked and used for standalone debugging by replacing the function
call at the end with "bash -i" which will then drop you into a shell
environment matching the task being debugged (minus the fakeroot context). 
*	Bonus marks for anyone sending a patch to add the fakeroot context
as comments at the start of the scripts.
*	(send any tips you'd like to see here to Stephen or Richard)

 

Key Status/Updates:

*	YP 3.1 M2 is in QA but has issues with build reproducibility
*	We're unlikely to rebuild M2 as master has the same issues and they
look like they will take a while to resolve.
*	There are now serious problems with the build reproducibility test
failures on the autobuilder. We're not sure why there is a sudden set of
problems but they are real issues and causing most builds to fail. The tests
will have to be disabled unless they can be resolved quickly. There are
fixes merged for the CONFIG_SHELL issue and kbd and patches queued as a
potential fix for makeinfo. There are more remaining issues, some have open
bugs, others don't have bugs yet. Help with any of these would be
appreciated (or help filing the bugs).
*	We're collecting a list of companies, products and projects which
use the Yocto Project on the wiki:
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Project_Users>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Project_Users Please add any you know are
missing (or email Richard/Stephen who can add).
*	We have created a "documentation" list and a "licensing" list on the
yocto project mailing list infrastructure. We believe these topics would
benefit from dedicated discussions, the people involved usually aren't
interested in bulk email as would be found on other lists. The new lists can
be found at:  <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/licensing/join>
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/licensing/join and
<https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/join>
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/join 
*	There is continued concern about the number of
recurring/intermittent failures in the automated testing, mostly from
selftest and testimage.
*	We continue to struggle to get clean 'full' builds due to the
reproducibility issues in particular.
*	The triage team is worried about attendance at triage meetings and
the project is finding it hard to find people to help fix bugs. If anyone is
willing to work on bugs, assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

YP 3.1 Milestone Dates:

*	YP 3.1 M2 release date 1/31/2020
*	YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
*	YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
*	YP 3.1 M4 build date  3/30/2020
*	YP 3.1 M4 release date  4/24/2020

 

Planned upcoming dot releases:

*	YP 2.7.3 build date  2/10/2020
*	YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
*	YP 3.0.2 build date  2/3/2020
*	YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020

 

Tracking Metrics:

*	WDD 2765 (last week 2758) (
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*	Poky Patch Metrics  

*	Total patches found: 1368 (last week 1357)
*	Patches in the Pending State: 545 (40%) [last week 536 (39%)]

 

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

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

 

The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
<https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status>
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
<mailto:sjolley.yp.pm@gmail.com> 

 


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