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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Subject: Yocto Project Status WW10’18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Current Dev Position: YP 2.5 M3 final close out.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Next Deadline: YP 2.5 M3 cut off was 2/19/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*** FEATURE FREEZE for 2.5 has passed ***</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SWAT team rotation: Rebecca -> Cal on March 9, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SWAT team rotation: Cal -> Armin on March 16, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key Status/Updates:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">YP 2.5 M2 was released February 27.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This milestone release includes CVE fixes and 60 recipe upgrades<b>.
</b> It incorporates security fixes<b> </b>with upgrades to gcc and kernels to all current stable versions. Headline changes include reproducibility improvements, gettext build performance, image generation, and cmake using Ninja by default. This release
added gobject-introspection tests to testimage, integrated support for the Meson build system, Python build/packaging refactoring, and redesigned postinstall script handling.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">YP 2.2.3 was released February 27.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A total of<b> </b>97 CVE fixes<b> </b>
and other fixes to work with GCC 7 on newer host OSs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have committed to a 2.2.4 release to integrate all remaining security fixes.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">YP 2.4.2 RC2 came out of QA today (report at https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/WW10_-_2018-03-05-_Full_Test_Cycle_-_2.4.2_rc2)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">YP 2.5 M3 is in final feature freeze. Reviewing last week’s required features:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2.27 glibc upgrade has been merged. This meant making SDK changes so they’re all ~50M larger now thanks to the need to ship locales. However the same underlying code could be reused to generate locale archives in
images, which will make those smaller.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">kernel-devsrc size reduction: the blocking issue has been resolved so waiting for an updated patch.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">pseudo upgrade has been merged which should solve many issues, and Peter is investigating the long-standing host contamination issue.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Still need to resolve the multilib SDK patch series.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Package feed filtering has been merged.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Image EFI configuration rework under review now.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Performance metrics indicate that a recent merge has caused a slowdown in build times. It is suspected that the glibc upgrade is the cause of this although help would be appreciated to verify this.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Flood of last-minute upgrades continuing to be reviewed and merged if low-impact.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Go upgrade/improvements are under review, possibly we’ll ship both Go 1.9.4 and 1.10 in 2.5 but do plan to drop 1.9.4 from master as soon as 1.10 doesn’t present compatibility problems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We’re continuing to work on the autobuilder changes and for various reasons (inc. changes in people). We would be in much better shape to switch to the new codebase before release, rather than waiting until early
2.6 to pick this work up again by which time we’d have lost people and context. If we are to switch, we need to build M3 with the new infrastructure. We plan to make this switch for M3.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Planned upcoming dot releases:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.3.4 (Pyro) will be built when we figure out gcc backports.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.2.4 (Morty) will be built when we figure out gcc backports.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.4.3 (Roko) is planned for post YP 2.5.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key YP 2.5 Dates are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M3 is in feature freeze. See status above.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M3 was scheduled for release 3/2/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M4 cut off of 4/2/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">YP 2.5 M4 release of 4/27/18</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tracking Metrics:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> WDD 2663 (last week 2646)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:black">(</span><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key Status Links for YP:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.5_Status"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.5_Status</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Schedule"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Schedule</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Features"><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.5_Features</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
</span><a href="https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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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