[OE-core] Yocto Project Status WW34’18

[Jolley, Stephen K]

Current Dev Position: YP 2.6 M3. - This is feature freeze for YP 2.6!

Next Deadline: YP 2.6 M3 Build Target is Aug. 27, 2018


SWAT Team Rotation:

·         SWAT lead is currently: Chen

·         SWAT team rotation: Chen -> Paul on Aug. 24, 2018

·         SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Aug. 31, 2018

·         https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team


Key Status/Updates:

·         YP 2.5.1 released on 8/21/18.

·         There were some significant patches merged into master:

o    glibc 2.28

o    fixes to preserve sparse files

o    image locale compression/archiving (to reduce image size)

o    kernel-devsrc rework (Thanks Bruce)

o    sstate cleanup algorithm changes

o    adoption of security flags by default in poky (Thanks Khem)

o    enabling llvm for mesa for x86 by default (Thanks Khem)

o    file checksum speed improvements (Thanks Ross)

o    addition of SSTATE_EXCLUDEDEPS_SYSROOT

o    bison-native no longer included in many dependency chains meaning some recipes need bison-native adding to DEPENDS

o    Profile Guided Optimisation (pgo) added for python (Thanks Anuj)

o    Qemu upgrade 2.12 -> 3.0

o    Many other version upgrades

·         The sstate equivalency server work from Joshua/Garmin has review still pending and identifying/fixing persist_data fork issues.

·         2.4 (rocko) series stabilization continues for the next point release 2.4.4


Planned Releases for YP 2.6:

·         YP 2.6 M3 Build Target is Aug. 27, 2018

·         YP 2.6 M3 Release Target is Sept. 7, 2018

·         YP 2.6 M4 Build Target is Oct. 1, 2018

·         YP 2.6 M4 Release Target is Oct. 26, 2018


Planned upcoming dot releases:

·         YP 2.4.4 (Rocko) will be targeted after YP 2.6 M4 is done.

·         YP 2.5.2 (Sumo) will be targeted after YP 2.4.4 is done.


Tracking Metrics:

·         WDD 2578 (last week 2592) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)

·         Poky Patch Metrics

o    Total patches found: 1623 (last week 1616)

o    Percentage of patches in the Pending State: 737 (45%) [last week 736 (46%)]


Key Status Links for YP:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.6_Status

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.6_Schedule

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.6_Features


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
INTEL, MS JF1-255, 2111 N.E. 25th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97124
•    Cell:                (208) 244-4460
• Email:                             stephen.k.jolley at intel.com

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