[yocto] Yocto Project Status WW34

[Saul Wold]

Current Dev Position: YP 2.2 M3
Next Deadline: YP 2.2 M3 which will be Aug 29th (5:00pm GMT)

SWAT team rotation: Juro -> Anibal
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team

Key Status/Updates:
 * We’re drawing close to the M3 deadline and feature freeze for 2.2. There is still a significant number of features outstanding with several looking to be at risk at this point.
 * The bitbake multi-config build series has now merged. 
 * We’ve re-enabled prelink on x86/mips. ppc/arm was disabled whilst we investigated test failures but will likely be enabled since the issues are looking to be a binutils bug.
 * We upgraded to gcc 6.2rc1 (we will track 6.2 through to our release)
 * Uninative 1.3 was released to deal with some locale problems. This will need to be backported to krogoth as a 1.0.1 release of uninative.
 * Current master is going to go through a full QA pass before M3 to try and make sure we are dealing with all the known bugs.
 * We are starting to see significant ‘random’ autobuilder failures again:
    * Mips machine ‘failure to start’ despite booting the kernel: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10136
    * Systemd logging failure: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10128
    * Unknown ppc failure: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-ppc/builds/910/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
    * Uvesa timeout issue: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8245
    * Busybox parallel make race: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116
We need to get to grips with these as a matter of urgency as they do keep recurring and several occurred during our QA build, sadly. I am getting quite concerned about these.
 * 2.1.1 has been released, finally!
 * We will be moving to the 4.7 kernel before M3 closes, and evaluating a move to 4.8 in mid-September.  We will be keeping both the 4.1 (as LTSI) and 4.4 (as LTS) kernels.  GregKH has announced that 4.9 will be the next LTS for a Dec/Jan release, therefore our 4.7 (or 4.8) will be short lived kernels.

Key YP 2.2 Dates:
 * YP 2.2 M1 release would be: 6/24/16
 * YP 2.2 M2 cut off would be: 7/18/16
 * YP 2.2 M2 release would be: 7/29/16
 * YP 2.2 M3 cut off would be: 8/29/16
 * YP 2.2 M3 release would be: 9/9/16
 * YP 2.2 M4 cut off would be: 10/3/16
 * YP 2.2 M4 release would be: 10/28/16

Tracking Metrics:
	WDD 2706  (last week 2712)
(https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)

Key Status Links for YP:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.2_Status
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.2_Schedule
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.2_Features

[If anyone has suggestions for other information you’d like to see on this weekly status update, let us know!]
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