Current Dev Position: YP 3.3 Feature Freeze

Next Deadline: 1st March 2021 YP 3.3 M3 build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Mar. 11th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Apr. 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Mar. 9th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.3 M3 is due to build soon, we are now at feature freeze
• M3 has not been built yet whilst the status of various pending patches was ascertained and several bugs investigated. A key runqueue bug in bitbake was finally identified and resolved, other seeming state manifest issues were traced to a bad patch. There is a performance regression which still needs debugging and fixing. We also need to get a better understanding of autobuilder load issues triggering intermittent failures although that may be deferred to M4.
• It looks like the rust addition patches will be deferred to 3.4, as will the PR server changes.
• Reproducibility is trending well for this release at 99.83% with a remaining intermittent issue in ltp due to be fixed imminently. Meson and ruby have intermittent issues, ovmf has a hardcoded path and much progress has been made in resolving the perf issues so hopefully that will be fixed soon. The only other issue is Go Language related.

https://www.yoctoproject.org/reproducible-build-results/

We had a mention in Reproducible Builds newsletter: https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2021-02/

• “Pending” state patch review is still needed, we have some really old stale ones which really need decisions to be made about their future. It would help a lot if recipe maintainers could review recipe patchsets and upstream them or remove them if they are no longer relevant. 
• Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur and are now at a record high level. 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 3.2.3 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
• YP 3.2.4 build date 2021/05/3
• YP 3.2.4 release date 2021/05/14
• YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/17
• YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/05/28

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2709 (last week 2647) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• Poky Patch Metrics
• Total patches found: 1281 (last week 1280)
• Patches in the Pending State: 489 (38%) [last week 484 (38%)]

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