Current Dev Position: YP 4.1 M2

Next Deadline: 11th July 2022 YP 4.1 M2 Build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 30th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday July 5th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 28th  at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.2 is due to build this week however we want to fix one bitbake logging regression first.
• A fix has been merged for a logging regression found in bitbake where the first message to the console during parsing would be shown but subsequent ones would not. 
• Fedora 36 is causing problems on the autobuilder since it drops support for the scp protocol requiring sftp on target instead to exchange files. Dropbear does not have sftp support. We need scp to perform several of our image tests.

We can add sftp to both dropbear and openssh images however that then causes dev-pkg conflicts since openssh and dropbear cannot be installed at the same time but are pulled in by openssh-dev and dropbear-dev.

• As such we’re proposing to change -dev package dependencies to become rrecommends instead of rdepends. This does radically change the contents of some images but in a way which is much more correct.
• There is a potential follow up change to change injected symlink dependencies from rdepends to rrecommends as well, which reduces the delta  of “dev-pkg” featured images even more.
• There are also problems in the cve-check selftests causing other build failures.
• Various npm fixes were merged, thanks Enrico.
• There are problems with rust-cross-canadian, it has never worked correctly for the full set of different targets cross-canadian might be set to. Help to fix that would be much appreciated.
• 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 M2 build date 2022/07/11
• YP 4.1 M2 Release date 2022/07/22
• 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 4.0.2 build date 2022/06/27
• YP 4.0.2 Release date 2022/07/08
• YP 3.1.18 build date 2022/07/18
• YP 3.1.18 Release date 2022/07/29
• YP 4.0.3 build date 2022/08/08
• YP 4.0.3 Release date 2022/08/19
• YP 3.1.19 build date 2022/08/29
• YP 3.1.19 Release date 2022/09/09
• 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 2400 (last week 2430) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
• Total patches found: 1151 (last week 1160)
• Patches in the Pending State: 326 (28%) [last week 326 (28%)]
• 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!]

Stephen K. Jolley

Yocto Project Program Manager

( Cell:                (208) 244-4460

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