poky: subtree update:0ac99625bf..796be0593a

Alexander Kanavin (31):
      netbase: upgrade 6.1 -> 6.2
      meson: upgrade 0.55.1 -> 0.56.0
      vulkan-samples: update to latest revision
      libcap: update 2.44 -> 2.45
      bind: upgrade 9.16.7 -> 9.16.9
      quota: upgrade 4.05 -> 4.06
      pango: upgrade 1.46.2 -> 1.48.0
      elfutils: upgrade 0.181 -> 0.182
      ifupdown: upgrade 0.8.35 -> 0.8.36
      createrepo-c: upgrade 0.16.1 -> 0.16.2
      acpica: upgrade 20200925 -> 20201113
      grep: upgrade 3.5 -> 3.6
      man-pages: upgrade 5.08 -> 5.09
      stress-ng: upgrade 0.11.23 -> 0.11.24
      libhandy: upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2
      piglit: upgrade to latest revision
      xkbcomp: upgrade 1.4.3 -> 1.4.4
      lz4: upgrade 1.9.2 -> 1.9.3
      bison: upgrade 3.7.3 -> 3.7.4
      python3-setuptools-scm: fix upstream version check
      cantarell-fonts: update 0.0.25 -> 0.201
      meta/lib/oe/reproducible.py: gitsm:// works just as fine as git:// for timestamps
      llvm: fix reproducibility
      ruby: fix reproducibility
      webkitgtk: fix reproducibility
      ffmpeg: fix reproducibility
      piglit: fix reproducibility
      serf: do not install the static library
      llvm: sort the lists in generated source reproducibibly
      kea: fix reproducibility
      poky.conf: do not write current date into distro version, use git hash instead

Andrej Valek (1):
      kernel-dummy: fix executing unexpected tasks

Anuj Mittal (1):
      releases.rst: add gatesgarth to current releases

Brett Warren (1):
      libffi: add patch to revert clang VFP workaround

Chandana kalluri (1):
      populate_sdk_ext: use SDK_CUSTOM_TEPLATECONF variable to enable custom templateconf.cfg

Changqing Li (1):
      buildtools-tarball: add wic dependency into extended buildtools

Diego Sueiro (2):
      modutils-initscripts: Fix modules.dep creation when USE_DEPMOD="0"
      initscripts: Change execution order between checkroot and modutils

Dmitry Baryshkov (2):
      linux-firmware: upgrade 20201022 -> 20201118
      linux-firmware: package ath11k firmware

Fabio Berton (1):
      mesa: Update 20.2.1 -> 20.2.4

Gratian Crisan (1):
      kernel-module-split.bbclass: fix kernel modules getting marked as CONFFILES

Jack Mitchell (3):
      Revert "connman: set service to conflict with systemd-networkd"
      systemd-conf: add PACKAGECONFIG to enable/disable auto ethernet DHCP
      systemd-conf: match ethernet interfaces by type rather than globbing

Joshua Watt (2):
      bitbake: hashserv: client: Fix AF_UNIX path length limits
      bitbake: hashserv: Fix broken AF_UNIX path length limit

Kai Kang (2):
      systemd-systemctl-native: capable to call without argument
      systemd.bbclass: update command to check systemctl available

Kevin Hao (1):
      tune-octeontx2.inc: Add tune for Marvell OCTEON TX2 core

Li Wang (2):
      qemu: CVE-2020-29129 CVE-2020-29130
      qemu: CVE-2020-25624

Luca Boccassi (1):
      dbus: move messagebus user to dbus-common package

Michael Halstead (1):
      releases: conf: add link to 3.1.4, update to include 3.1.4

Nicolas Dechesne (19):
      sphinx: add .vscode in .gitignore
      {dev,kernel,sdk}-manual: replace hardcoded release version with &DISTRO;
      sphinx: replace bitbake labels with references to corresponding title
      brief-yoctoprojectqs: replace labels with references to section title
      dev-manual: replace labels with references to section title
      ref-manual: replace labels with references to section title
      sdk-manual: replace labels with references to section title
      overview-manual: remove unused labels
      dev-manual: remove unused labels
      sphinx: rename top level document in each manual
      sphinx: use absolute paths for :doc: references
      test-manual: remove 'test-manual' from filenames
      toaster-manual: remove 'toaster-manual' from filenames
      dev-manual: remove 'dev-manual' from filenames
      kernel-dev: remove 'kernel-dev' from filenames
      profile-manual: remove 'profile-manual' from filenames
      overview-manual: remove 'overview-manual' from filenames
      sdk-manual: remove 'sdk' from filenames
      ref-manual: remove 'ref' from filenames

Paul Barker (5):
      documentation: Simplify yocto_wiki links
      documentation: Simplify yocto_git links
      ref-manual: Simplify oe_git links
      poky.conf: Add opensuseleap-15.2 and fedora-33 to tested distros
      poky.conf: Drop fedora-30 from tested distros

Peter Kjellerstedt (2):
      pseudo: Simplify pseudo_client_ignore_path_chroot()
      bitbake.conf: Add all layers (from BBLAYERS) to PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS

Richard Purdie (8):
      lz4: Use the new branch naming from upstream
      Revert "bitbake.conf: Add all layers (from BBLAYERS) to PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS"
      build-appliance-image: Update to master head revision
      bitbake: Revert "fetch2: use relative symlinks for anything pulled from PREMIRRORS"
      build-appliance-image: Update to master head revision
      metadata_scm: Fix signature handling of METADATA_REVISION and METADATA_BRANCH
      poky: Set SDK_VERSION explicitly
      build-appliance-image: Update to master head revision

Ross Burton (9):
      oeqa/devtool: use Yocto mirror for pv-1.5.3 tarball
      image_types: remove obsolete tar comment
      image_types: sort tarball file listings
      package_manager/ipk: neaten OPKGLIBDIR logic
      ldconfig-native: don't write auxiliary cache
      package_manager/ipk: improve remove_packaging_data
      oeqa/selftest/containerimage: update for improved cleanup
      coreutils: add SUSE-specific issues to CVE whitelist
      bitbake: msg: use safe YAML loader

Sinan Kaya (1):
      poky-tiny: enable section removal

Tomasz Dziendzielski (1):
      pseudo: Update to print PSEUDO_LOGFILE in abort message on path mismatches

sangeeta jain (1):
      meta/lib/oeqa/manual/oe-core.json: Update test_bitbake_devshell

zangrc (3):
      libinput: upgrade 1.16.3 -> 1.16.4
      lighttpd: upgrade 1.4.55 -> 1.4.56
      sysstat: upgrade 12.4.0 -> 12.4.1

Signed-off-by: Andrew Geissler <geissonator@yahoo.com>
Change-Id: I65f2f1c9d44433f3e62609240012c42256679b51
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
+
+***********************************
+Project Testing and Release Process
+***********************************
+
+Day to Day Development
+======================
+
+This section details how the project tests changes, through automation
+on the Autobuilder or with the assistance of QA teams, through to making
+releases.
+
+The project aims to test changes against our test matrix before those
+changes are merged into the master branch. As such, changes are queued
+up in batches either in the ``master-next`` branch in the main trees, or
+in user trees such as ``ross/mut`` in ``poky-contrib`` (Ross Burton
+helps review and test patches and this is his testing tree).
+
+We have two broad categories of test builds, including "full" and
+"quick". On the Autobuilder, these can be seen as "a-quick" and
+"a-full", simply for ease of sorting in the UI. Use our Autobuilder
+console view to see where me manage most test-related items, available
+at: :yocto_ab:`/typhoon/#/console`.
+
+Builds are triggered manually when the test branches are ready. The
+builds are monitored by the SWAT team. For additional information, see
+:yocto_wiki:`/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team`.
+If successful, the changes would usually be merged to the ``master``
+branch. If not successful, someone would respond to the changes on the
+mailing list explaining that there was a failure in testing. The choice
+of quick or full would depend on the type of changes and the speed with
+which the result was required.
+
+The Autobuilder does build the ``master`` branch once daily for several
+reasons, in particular, to ensure the current ``master`` branch does
+build, but also to keep ``yocto-testresults``
+(:yocto_git:`/yocto-testresults/`),
+buildhistory
+(:yocto_git:`/poky-buildhistory/`), and
+our sstate up to date. On the weekend, there is a master-next build
+instead to ensure the test results are updated for the less frequently
+run targets.
+
+Performance builds (buildperf-\* targets in the console) are triggered
+separately every six hours and automatically push their results to the
+buildstats repository at:
+:yocto_git:`/yocto-buildstats/`.
+
+The 'quick' targets have been selected to be the ones which catch the
+most failures or give the most valuable data. We run 'fast' ptests in
+this case for example but not the ones which take a long time. The quick
+target doesn't include \*-lsb builds for all architectures, some world
+builds and doesn't trigger performance tests or ltp testing. The full
+build includes all these things and is slower but more comprehensive.
+
+Release Builds
+==============
+
+The project typically has two major releases a year with a six month
+cadence in April and October. Between these there would be a number of
+milestone releases (usually four) with the final one being stablization
+only along with point releases of our stable branches.
+
+The build and release process for these project releases is similar to
+that in `Day to Day Development <#test-daily-devel>`__, in that the
+a-full target of the Autobuilder is used but in addition the form is
+configured to generate and publish artefacts and the milestone number,
+version, release candidate number and other information is entered. The
+box to "generate an email to QA"is also checked.
+
+When the build completes, an email is sent out using the send-qa-email
+script in the ``yocto-autobuilder-helper`` repository to the list of
+people configured for that release. Release builds are placed into a
+directory in https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/releases on the
+Autobuilder which is included in the email. The process from here is
+more manual and control is effectively passed to release engineering.
+The next steps include:
+
+-  QA teams respond to the email saying which tests they plan to run and
+   when the results will be available.
+
+-  QA teams run their tests and share their results in the yocto-
+   testresults-contrib repository, along with a summary of their
+   findings.
+
+-  Release engineering prepare the release as per their process.
+
+-  Test results from the QA teams are included into the release in
+   separate directories and also uploaded to the yocto-testresults
+   repository alongside the other test results for the given revision.
+
+-  The QA report in the final release is regenerated using resulttool to
+   include the new test results and the test summaries from the teams
+   (as headers to the generated report).
+
+-  The release is checked against the release checklist and release
+   readiness criteria.
+
+-  A final decision on whether to release is made by the YP TSC who have
+   final oversight on release readiness.