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 30tjh7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday March 28th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 3.1.24 was released
• YP 4.2 final release is due to build next week
• Before final release we’d like to get updates to use the new CVE database format merged, there are also some rust fetch/tooling improvements that may also be potential merge candidates.
• The glib-2.0 upgrade has reported issues with the malloc changes so we will defer that until after release.
• There is some testing of the autoconf 2.73 pre-release version (2.72c) happening to ensure we’re in a good position when it finally does release, issues are being reported upstream.
• The project autobuilder controller is now on the latest upstream buildbot version. Our plugins and other integration were updated to match.
• Our autobuilder console UI has had some improvements to fix bug and improve the layout (https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/console)
• poky-bleeding should now be usable but hasn’t been integrated into our CI yet.
• 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

YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 4.2 M4 build date 2023/04/03
• YP 4.2 M4 Release date 2023/04/28
• YP 4.3 M1 build date  2023/06/05
• YP 4.3 M1 Release date 2023/06/16
• YP 4.3 M2 build date  2023/07/17
• YP 4.3 M2 Release date 2023/07/28
• YP 4.3 M3 build date  2023/08/28
• YP 4.3 M3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02
• YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 3.1.24 is released
• 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
• YP 4.2.1 build date 2023/05/22
• YP 4.2.1 Release date 2023/06/02
• YP 3.1.26 build date 2023/06/19
• YP 3.1.26 Release date 2023/06/30
• YP 4.0.11 build date 2023/06/26
• YP 4.0.11 Release date 2023/07/07
• YP 4.2.2 build date 2023/07/10
• YP 4.2.2 Release date 2023/07/21 
• YP 3.1.27 build date 2023/07/31
• YP 3.1.27 Release date 2023/08/11
• YP 4.0.12 build date 2023/08/07
• YP 4.0.12 Release date 2023/08/18
• YP 4.2.3 build date 2023/08/28
• YP 4.2.3 Release date 2023/09/08
• YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
• YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
• YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
• YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
• YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
• YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
• YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
• YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
• YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
• YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
• YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
• YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
• YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
• YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2459 (last week 2459) (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

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