[OE-core] Yocto Project Status WW12’18

[akuster808]

On 03/19/2018 08:45 AM, Jordan, Robin L wrote:
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> Current Dev Position: YP 2.5 M3 final close out.
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> Next Deadline: YP 2.5 M3 cut off was 2/19/18
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> *** FEATURE FREEZE for 2.5 has passed ***
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> SWAT lead is currently Ross.
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> SWAT team rotation: Armin -> Ross on March 23, 2018
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> SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Juro on March 30, 2018
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> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team
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> Key Status/Updates:
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>   * YP 2.4.2 was released:
>     https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-March/040282.html
>   * Meta-intel 8.1 was released:
>     https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-intel/2018-March/005261.html
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>   * We’ve realised we were going to run into problems with distros
>     adopting glibc 2.27, if not now, during the next release cycle. We
>     therefore decided to head off this problem and try and fix the
>     issues now. Unfortunately, due to locale changes in 2.27, it also
>     breaks our eSDK in the current and all previous releases. We have
>     fixes in master for this (thanks Ross!) and backports ready for
>     rocko and pyro in the -next branches. Morty is proving harder to
>     fix. We believe it is likely better to fix these issue even if the
>     changes are invasive (they are at least mostly contained to the SDKs).
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>   * The gcc 6.x changes were merged into rocko/pyro/morty which means
>     point releases are now unblocked by that issue.
>   * The performance issue reported last week was tracked down to a
>     kernel change which was reverted.
>   * The new buildbot autobuilder instance is working with basic
>     functionality. We therefore plan to run the M3 release build on
>     that infrastructure with a view to using it for the main 2.5
>     release. It was great to be able to report an issue upstream and
>     be using their latest code! The autobuilder functionality is
>     improved in at least two significant ways already which benefit
>     the maintainers.
>   * We really do need to roll M3 now, our current plan is to test the
>     final changes in mut and then run M3 with this. It is not a
>     perfect set of features, many things simply haven’t made it in as
>     the people doing review are overloaded. We’re too far past the
>     freeze deadline to realistically make any further progress with
>     this though.
>   * ELC was productive and there was a lot of good discussion between
>     the people there about many different things. In particular we
>     have some ideas for improving the project’s build infrastructure
>     to allow more builds including other layers. More info will follow
>     as we build the plans to make that happen.
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> Planned upcoming dot releases:
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> YP 2.3.4 (Pyro) will be built after 2.5 M3
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> YP 2.2.4 (Morty) will be built after 2.5 M3 once the glibc 2.27 issue
> is fixed
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> YP 2.4.3 (Rocko) is planned for post YP 2.5.
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> Key YP 2.5 Dates are:
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> YP 2.5 M3 is in feature freeze.  See status above.
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Does this include package updates?

Do we have a place identified for new changes (2.6) while 2.5 stabilizes.

- armin


> YP 2.5 M3 was scheduled for release 3/2/18
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> YP 2.5 M4 cut off of 4/2/18
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> YP 2.5 M4 release of 4/27/18
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> Tracking Metrics:
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>             WDD 2673 (last week 2673)
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> (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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> Key Status Links for YP:
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> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.5_Status
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> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Schedule
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> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Features
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> The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status
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> [If anyone has suggestions for other information you’d like to see on
> this weekly status update, let us know!]
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> Robin Jordan
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> Yocto Project Program Manager
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