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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Current Dev Position: YP 2.5 M1 development</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Next Deadline: YP 2.5 M1 cut off of 12/4/17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Todor on Nov. 24, 2017.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SWAT team rotation: Todor -> Tracy on Dec. 1, 2017.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key Status/Updates:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are continuing to suffer intermittent build failures and are continuing to attempt to debug these.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">One piece of good news is that the qemuppc issue has been tracked down to a bug in qemu and we have a patch merged to address that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sadly:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 4.3.12 kernel did not resolve the tumbleweed/f26 qemu hangs. It does appears to be a KVM APIC virtualization problem limited to mmio. If we enable x2apic
which mostly uses msr accesses, the problem is significantly reduced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We also have a hang issue with morty builds, occurring in smart through rpm/libdb with a mutex/pthread lockup. We don’t know why morty has started showing
this issue on all builds, it is blocking the point release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Until we resolve these issues patches will continue to be slow to merge, if at all. This also blocks several core developers from doing any feature work
at this point in time (e.g. layer setup tool is on hold, again).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We can only continue to stress that unless others step up and help to try and root cause these issues, things will stall with the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Planned upcoming dot releases:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.2.3 is planned and should be out in the next few weeks when the hang issue is solved.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.3.3 is planned, but date TBD during YP 2.5 planning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.4.1 is planned, but date TBD during YP 2.5 planning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key YP 2.5 Dates are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M1 cut off of 12/4/17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M1 release of 12/15/17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M2 cut off of 1/15/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M2 release of 1/26/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M3 cut off of 2/19/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M3 release of 3/2/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M4 cut off of 4/2/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M4 release of 4/27/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tracking Metrics:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">WDD 2700 (last week 2655)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">(</span><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key Status Links for YP:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.5_Status"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.5_Status</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Schedule"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Schedule</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Features"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Features</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[If anyone has suggestions for other information you’d like to see on this weekly status update, let us know!]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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