[OE-core] [yocto] Yocto Project Status WW15’18

[akuster808]

On 04/09/2018 08:13 AM, Jordan, Robin L wrote:
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> Current Dev Position: YP 2.5 M4 final close out.
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> Next Deadline: YP 2.5 M4 release is 4/27/18
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> SWAT Team Rotation:
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> SWAT lead is currently: Paul.
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> SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Tracy on April 13, 2018
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> SWAT team rotation: Tracy -> Stephano on April 20, 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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>   * The M3 rc1 QA report has been completed:
>     https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/WW15_-_2018-04-09-_Full_Test_Cycle_-_2.5_M3_rc1
>       There are a number of selftest failures and a known SRCREV
>     related issue with the build-appliance. We will look into these,
>     but at this point we don’t foresee these blocking M3 and will aim
>     to start testing release candidates for the final 2.5 release this
>     week.  
>   * A problem was spotted with fedora28 which has worryingly decided
>     to merge extra patches ahead of glibc and “break” ABI over the
>     split of libcrypt out of glibc into libxcrypt. Since we will have
>     to handle this, we have decided to change nativesdk-glibc for the
>     2.5 release but keep on target as is until the situation with
>     upstream glibc becomes clearer.
>   * We realised late in the cycle that we needed to change the
>     LAYERSERIES_COMPAT variable in the core layers. We have also added
>     warnings to make this variable more obvious and required it for
>     Yocto Project Compatible v2 status. It seemed best to make these
>     changes for 2.5 rather than wait until 2.6.
>   * We are considering a final late change to 2.5 to allow poky to use
>     the Yocto Project sstate mirrors by default. Feedback welcome on
>     whether we should do this. It is late in the cycle but would make
>     a good speedup for users potentially.
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I would not make it the default, but have the url info defined in the
sample.local.conf
Can the Yocto infrastructure handle the world pinging it for sstate?

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>   * Armin fixed the SDK locale issues with morty, thanks! We are aware
>     of a related locale  build regression on morty sadly.
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I assume a bug was opened?
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>   * We were able to upgrade pseudo and have hopefully resolved our
>     fedora27/coreutils issues. Thanks to all who helped!
>   * Master-next has a number of recipe upgrades queued. We still want
>     to discourage people from sending recipe upgrades until we start
>     2.6; however, there were simply too many patches to ignore. This
>     has meant various people and build resources have ended up
>     distracted from 2.5 work.
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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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Wont it be post Rocko point release?
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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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Wouldn't Morty be post Pyro point release? This will the the point release?

> 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 QA.  See status above.
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> 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 2570 (last week 2594)
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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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