OEDVM Nov 2021

Location and Time

Held after the Yocto Project Summit , The OE Developers Meeting is scheduled for Friday, 03 December 2021 between 12:00 and 20:00 UTC. The exact times for each individual topic are found below in the schedule.

We will be using Automotive Grade Linux's Zoom (and many thanks to AGL for this!) https://zoom.us/j/99151508871

Format

As always, we will collect topics on the wiki at https://www.openembedded.org/OEDVM_Nov_2021.

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

Topic Ideas

(In no particular order)

Topic	Moderator(s)	Estimate of time
Future direction for SBOM	Ross Burton, Saul Wold, Joshua Watt	?
Replacing Sato with Phosh	Joshua Watt, Tim Orling	?
Future of eSDK	?	?
bblock/bbunlock	?	?
Binary distributions	Bruce Ashfield	?
Modern languages (e.g. go)	?	?
Inclusive language	Jon Mason, Tim Orling	15mins
layer.conf changes	?	?
Data store operation changes	?	?
Syntax removal	?	?
Data store internal rewrite	?	?
f-string in Python code (and more modern python in general)	?	?
Bitbake internal changes	?	?
Merging optional functionality to make it mandatory	?	?
Dropping core features	?	?
Migration to SPDX license	Ross Burton, Joshua Watt	?
Security (PSiRT)	?	?
Layer setup configuration	?	?
Yocto Project compatibility	Armin, ndec	?
QA Automation	?	?
Code submission process	?	?
Software updates	?	?
AI/ML	?	?
Increasing OE membership and voter turnout	OE Board member	?

Schedule

TBD