Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M4

Next Deadline: 3rd April 2023 YP 4.2 M4 Build

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday March 23rd 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday March 21st at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.1.3 was released
• YP 3.1.24 has passed QA and is being reviewed for release
• We are continuing to prepare for final release of 4.2 with the build now due in ~1.5 weeks
• We’re happy to see a huge improvement in the reliability of the python ptests thanks to a dedicated pytest plugin to correctly format the output into a form we can parse, thanks Ross!
• Work on making “poky-bleeding” operational again has highlighted some challenges around AUTOREV support. There are patches pending to bitbake (in -next) to highlight  problematic situations users may end up in, wider testing of those patches by AUTOREV users would be helpful.
• CVE levels in the LTS releases are at higher levels than they have been for a while which is a concern.
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

Ways to contribute:

• 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!
• 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 M4 build date 2023/04/03
• YP 4.2 M4 Release date 2023/04/28

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.1.3 is released
• YP 3.1.24 is ready for release
• 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 2472 (last week 2472) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
• Total patches found: 1190 (last week 1185)
• Patches in the Pending State: 277 (23%) [last week 277 (23%)]
• 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

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