Current Dev Position: YP 3.3 M3 development

Next Deadline: 1st March 2021 YP 3.3 M3 build 

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Feb. 18th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Mar. 2nd at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Feb. 16th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.2.2 is currently building.
• We’ve been upgrading uninative and buildtools-extended-tarball however glibc 2.33 has caused issues with build in containers and with pseudo. Hopefully these issues are now resolved or worked around with the latest patches.
• There is apparently a reputation that Yocto Project is not reproducible. It’s builds are! We now have an live status report on our website for this: https://www.yoctoproject.org/reproducible-build-results/ showing the status live from the autobuilder (thanks Joshua and Michael)
• Given the above, we’ve managed to improve the reproducible selftest by separating to its own autobuilder target and showing which exclusions are no longer needed.
• We have also fixed reproducibility issues in a number of recipes. There are still some low hanging issues in the current exclusion list.
• The AUH (Automatic Upgrade Helper) has run and was relatively successful, please help us get the version upgrades in before M3 builds on the 1st.
• We’ve changed the default umask applying to tasks in builds to make it easier to avoid reproducibility issues (bitbake now has a BB_DEFAULT_UMASK variable).
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur. 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 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_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.

YP 3.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 3.3 M3 build date 2021/03/01
• YP 3.3 M3 Release date 2021/03/12
• YP 3.3 M4 build date 2021/04/05
• YP 3.3 M4 Release date 2021/04/30

Planned upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.2.2 is building.
• YP 3.2.2 release date 2021/02/19
• YP 3.1.6 build date 2021/02/22
• YP 3.1.6 release date 2021/03/05
• YP 3.2.3 build date 2021/03/15
• YP 3.2.3 release date 2021/03/26
• YP 3.1.7 build date 2021/03/29
• YP 3.1.7 release date 2021/04/09

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2618 (last week 2639) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics  
• Total patches found: 1272 (last week 1278)
• Patches in the Pending State: 490 (39%) [last week 495 (39%)]

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