Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M2

Next Deadline: 23th January 2023 YP 4.2 M2 Build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday December 15th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday December 13th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.2 M1 is in QA
• YP 4.0.6 is due to build today
• There have been a number of more invasive bitbake changes either merged or are queued. This included a move to adopt the new layer.conf “addpylib” directive for layers with python library directories. Also included was a new optional bitbake cache mode which includes hash construction information, we’re likely to switch to use this for the dump-signatures functionality. We haven’t merged optimisations for that cache yet.
• We have increased the minimum python version requirement to 3.8.
• Functionality versus parsing speed continues to be a discussion for some of the bitbake patches.
• CVEs in master are lower but some have been open for a number of weeks now.
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
• 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!

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

YP 4.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.2 M1 is in QA
• YP 4.2 M1 Release date 2022/12/16
• YP 4.2 M2 build date 2023/01/23
• YP 4.2 M2 Release date 2023/02/03
• YP 4.2 M3 build date 2023/02/20
• YP 4.2 M3 Release date 2023/03/03
• YP 4.2 M4 build date 2023/04/03
• YP 4.2 M4 Release date 2023/04/28

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.6 build date 2022/12/12
• YP 4.0.6 Release date 2022/12/23
• YP 4.1.2 build date 2023/01/09
• YP 4.1.2 Release date 2023/01/20
• YP 3.1.22 build date 2023/01/16
• YP 3.1.22 Release date 2023/01/27
• YP 4.0.7 build date 2023/01/30
• YP 4.0.7 Release date 2023/02/10
• YP 3.1.23 build date 2023/02/13
• YP 3.1.23 Release date 2023/02/24
• YP 4.0.8 build date 2023/02/27
• YP 4.0.8 Release date 2023/03/10
• YP 4.1.3 build date 2023/03/06
• YP 4.1.3 Release date 2023/03/17
• YP 3.1.24 build date 2023/03/20
• YP 3.1.24 Release date 2023/03/31
• YP 4.0.9 build date 2023/04/10
• YP 4.0.9 Release date 2023/04/21
• YP 4.1.4 build date 2023/05/01
• YP 4.1.4 Release date 2023/05/13
• YP 3.1.25 build date 2023/05/08
• YP 3.1.25 Release date 2023/05/19
• YP 4.0.10 build date 2023/05/15
• YP 4.0.10 Release date 2023/05/26

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2437 (last week 2444) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
• Total patches found: 1162 (last week 1164)
• Patches in the Pending State: 285 (25%) [last week 285 (24%)]
• 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