OEDVM 2021

Location and Time

Co-located with the Yocto Project Summit held on May 25-26, 2021.

The Developers Meeting is scheduled for May 25th between 15:30 and 20:00 UTC. The exact times for each individual topic are TBD.

Format

As always, we will collect topics on the wiki at https://www.openembedded.org/OEDVM_2021.

For the actual developer meeting, there will be pre-assigned timeslots for each topic. The moderator(s) have the option of opening with a short introduction/presentation to introduce the topic.

Topic Ideas

• Insight into the life of a Maintainer
• BSPs: best practice exemplars, cross-project issue tracker, linters, incentive loop design
  • Moderator(s):
• OE Resourcing: gaps, role naming, work metadata, bridging OSS/commercial
  • Moderator(s):

• X11 is dead; long live X11! what's to become of core-image-sato?
  • Moderator(s): Trevor Woerner
  • Premise:
    • the Yocto Project provides a sample distribution (poky) and images (core-image-minimal, core-image-base, core-image-full-cmdline…) to give users examples to follow and provide a basis for testing purposes
    • core-image-sato was created to fill the GUI niche as an example and for testing
    • core-image-sato is based on gtk+ 3.x and x11
    • both gtk+ 3 and x11 are EOL/unmaintained
  • Discussion:
    • do we need a GUI image going forward (as an example, for testing purposes)?
    • how much testing does core-image-sato receive?
    • how many teams have based their work on core-image-sato?
    • if a GUI image is still needed, upon which toolkit and compositor should it be based?
    • what's to become of core-image-sato?
    • what's to become of x11 support in oecore?

• Improving Layer quality: Layerindex combined with a layerchecker
  • Moderator(s): Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf@gmx.de)

FAQ

The format is new, we will try and add clarifications here.

1. Do I need to be present at the live meeting to moderate a topic? No, just make sure the topic has one or two people for the live session.