OEDVM 2022 05

Location and Time

Held after the Yocto Project Summit , The OE Developers Meeting is scheduled for Friday, 20 May 2022 between 12:00 and 20:00 UTC. Exact times for each individual topic are found below in the schedule.

The meeting is held on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/99151508871 (Meeting ID: 991 5150 8871). We thank Automotive Grade Linux for providing!

Format

As always, we will collect topics on the wiki at https://wiki.openembedded.org/OEDVM_2022_05.

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

These are topics that were suggested for previous OE developer meetings and have not been covered yet. They should be seen as starting ideas on things that can be discussed.

(In no particular order)

Topic	Moderator(s)	Estimate of time	Notes
Introduction	OE Board	?
Future of eSDK (inc. bblock/bbunlock commands)	?	?	https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/thoughts_on_the_esdk/90990557
Copyright in OE-Core files	?	?	https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/oe_core_copyright_notices/91159593
layer.conf changes	?	?
Data store operation changes	?	?
Syntax removal	?	?
Data store internal rewrite	?	?
f-string in Python code (and more modern python in general)	?	?
Merging optional functionality to make it mandatory	?	?
Dropping core features	?	?
Security (PSiRT)	?	?
Layer setup configuration	?	?
QA Automation	?	?
Code submission process	?	?
Software updates	?	?
AI/ML	?	?

Here are some new topic ideas:

Topic	Moderator(s)	Estimate of time
Kernel config RFC	Trevor Woerner	30
Layer Setup Configuration	Joshua Watt	30
Bitbake & OE "Core improvements"	Joshua Watt	30
Multiple SBOM formats, both in and out	Peter Kjellerstedt	20
Layerindex: quality, tooling, enhancements	Jan-Simon Möller, Tim Orling	20
Airing of Grievances	OpenEmbedded Board	30+ (After all other topics covered)

Notes

Social

Meet up @ ELC?

Minutes

TBD