[yocto] Yocto Project Status WW36’19

[Richard Purdie]

Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M4 Feature FreezeNext Deadline: YP 3.0
Final Release 25th Oct
SWAT Team Rotation:SWAT lead is currently: ArminSWAT team rotation:
Armin -> Paul on Sept. 6, 2019SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Sept.
13, 2019
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team
Next Team Meetings:Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept 5th at 7:30am PDT (
https://zoom.us/j/454367603)Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Sept. 3rd
at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712) Twitch - Next event is Tuesday
Sept. 10th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)
Key Status/Updates:We’re now in feature freeze for 3.0 and working on
bug fixing for final releaseSeveral key 3.0 changes have now merged:5.2
linux-libc-kernel-headers5.2 kernel recipesRemoval of LSB and poky-lsb
and replacement with alt config testingPatches have significantly
reduced the dependency on python2Reproducible builds are now being
tested for core-image-minimalThere are the following changes still
under discussion/testing:Systemd vs. sysvinit defaults (maybe for the
poky alternative configuration tests)Making 5.2 the default kernel for
qemu (has regressions, see below)Hashserv performance issue
resolutionFinal configuration of hash equivalencytoolchain testsuite
patch seriesThe sstate hash equivalency continues to have challenges:we
need to rework the client/server communication to scale to the
autobuilderthere are some bugs in the code the autobuilder continues to
exposewe have cases where its not 100% clear what the correct behaviour
should betest cases are proving to be problematic to write in a
maintainable wayPatch merging is roughly up to date againWe have
several significant problematic bugs that are being worked on:5.2 stap
build issue on qemuarm5.2 kprobes error message (qemuarm64,
qemumips64)qemumips machine hangIf anyone has any status items for the
project they’d like to add to the weekly reports, please email
Richard+Stephen.
Planned Releases for YP 3.0 {2.8}:M3 Release 6th SeptM4 Cutoff 30th
Sept - this will be YP 3.0.YP 3.0 {2.8 (M4)} Final Release 25th Oct
Planned upcoming dot releases:YP 2.7.2 (Warrior) is planned for after
YP 3.0 release.YP 2.6.4 (Thud) is planned for after YP 2.7.2  release.
Tracking Metrics:WDD 2413 (last week 2485) (
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)Poky Patch
Metrics  Total patches found: 1470 (last week 1474)Patches in the
Pending State: 611 (42%) [last week 613 (41%)]
Key Status Links for YP:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.8_Statushttps://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Schedulehttps://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Features
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!]


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