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Welcome to issue number twenty-five of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. You can also find the latest issue and back issues on our wiki page. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/newsletter

Feedback and comments are welcome. wminer@linuxfoundation.org

Regards,
Walt
Twitter: @VStarWalt

1) In case you missed the big announcement, Volkswagen has joined AGL! https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2019/04/08/volkswagen-joins-agl

2) Speaking of the new documentation site, we need some help with HTML5, CSS, and such to improve its look and feel. If you have expertise in these areas and want to help out check out JIRA issues SPEC-2317, SPEC-2318, and SPEC-2319. Please contact me if you can help us out. We will be looking for more redesign of the overall look and feel of the site as well.

3) The hardware specification being written by the Reference Hardware System Architecture EG will be released to the System Architecture Team in two weeks for review and approval. This should lead to a 2-DIN hardware prototype that can be purchased by AGL Members. A draft version of the spec can be found here for review and early comments. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/_media/egrhsa/agl_referencehardwarespec_v0.2.0draft.pdf

4) Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9. Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f

5) When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit, remember that we will hold a Face-to-Face SAT and Expert Group meeting on July 16 the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f

6) The uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud) was merged to master this week. Expect some instabilities on master as some issues still need to be resolved. The guppy patch release (7.0.1) is still held up by some regressions found in our pre-release testing. A new version is being spun today for testing before Tuesday’s developer call.

7) Once you have finished the newsletter, take a second to vote in my twitter poll. https://twitter.com/VStarWalt/status/1116654184382726145

13:00 UTC – Graphics and UI Expert Group

12:00 pm UTC – Continuous Integration and Automated Test Expert Group

13:00 UTC - Weekly developer call
Open to anyone with questions about AGL code or issues they may be having.

13:00 UTC - Speech Expert Group

14:00 UTC - Virtualization Expert Group

13:00 UTC - Connectivity Expert Group

Welcome to issue number twenty-four of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. The newsletter is now being posted to the wiki page. Check it out at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/newsletter Feedback and comments are welcome. wminer_at_linuxfoundation.org

Regards,
Walt
Twitter: @VStarWalt

1) Jan-Simon and I are traveling this week so the developer call will be two hours later than usual on Tuesday and the Instrument Cluster and System Spec EG call has been moved to Thursday.

2) This is your last chance to propose a talk for the for Automotive Linux Summit in July. The deadline to submit a CFP for ALS is Sunday, April 7. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/automotive-linux-summit-2019/program/cfp/ When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit in July, remember that we will hold a F2F SAT and Expert Group meeting the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f

3) Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9. Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f

4) The guppy patch release (7.0.1) was held up by some regressions found in our pre-release testing so expect to be released after Tuesday’s developer call. We will also be making a decision on merging the uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud branch) onto master during Tuesday’s call.

13:00 UTC – Vehicle to Cloud Expert Group

15:00 UTC - Weekly developer call Note the time change for this week!
Open to anyone with questions about AGL code or issues they may be having.

13:00 UTC - App Framework and Security Expert Group

12:00 pm UTC – Joint meeting of Instrument Cluster and System Spec Expert Groups Note the day change for this week!

13:00 UTC - System Architecture Team

Europe is changing to summer time this weekend so all meetings in Europe will be one hour later starting Monday. Welcome to issue number twenty-three of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. Feedback and comments are welcome. wminer_at_linuxfoundation.org

Regards,
Walt
Twitter: @VStarWalt

Highlights:

1) Funky Flounder patch release 6.0.5 was released this week. Release notes can be found here. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/release-notes#flounder_605

2) The Instrument Cluster Expert Group needs OEM and Tier One members to join the group so we can gather requirements for this project. Contact me or join the next expert group meeting if you want to contribute. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/eg-ic

3) Monday’s Graphics and UI Expert Group call will review this update (https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/_media/2019-03-28_-_agl_sat_-_window_manager_replacement.pdf) from Daniel Stone on the window manager and compositor re-architecture. Please take a moment to review it before hand and come ready with questions and comments. There are a number of open requirements and timeline questions starting on slide 20 that need to be resolved.

4) The deadline to submit a CFP for Automotive Linux summit is now Sunday, April 7. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/automotive-linux-summit-2019/program/cfp/ When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit in July, remember that we will hold a F2F SAT and Expert Group meeting the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f

5) Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9. Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f

6) The patch release for guppy (7.0.1) should be released after Tuesday’s developer call. We will also be making a decision on merging the uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud branch) onto master during Tuesday’s call.

This week’s meetings:

13:00 UTC – Graphics and UI Expert Group

12:00 pm UTC – Continuous Integration and Automated Test Expert Group

13:00 UTC - Weekly developer call
Open to anyone with questions about AGL code or issues they may be having.

13:00 UTC - Speech Expert Group

14:00 UTC - Virtualization Expert Group

13:00 UTC - Connectivity Expert Group

Spring is finally here and so is issue number twenty-two of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. Feedback and comments are welcome. wminer_at_linuxfoundation.org

Regards,
Walt
Twitter: @VStarWalt

Highlights:

1) The Instrument Cluster Expert Group needs OEM and Tier One members to join the group so we can gather requirements for this project. Contact me or join the next expert group meeting if you want to contribute. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/eg-ic

2) Following the F2F meeting in Tokyo the re-architecture of the window manager and compositor has taken some great strides forward. This also includes a new input manager and activity manager for applications. On Monday the Graphics and UI Expert Group will review a revised proposal for the design. If there are requirements you want to see fulfilled in these areas please plan to join us.

3) The System Architecture Team will take a look at the latest window manager proposal as well as get an update on plans for using PipeWire (https://pipewire.org/) in the AGL audio stack on Thursday.

4) The deadline to submit a CFP for Automotive Linux summit is Sunday, March 24. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/automotive-linux-summit-2019/program/cfp/

5) Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9. Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f

6) When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit in July, remember that we will hold a F2F SAT and Expert Group meeting the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f

7) We tested the pre-release versions of both 6.0.5 on flounder and 7.0.1 on guppy and found a blocking issue on both of them. See the developer call meeting minutes for details. We still expect the releases to be made this week so look for announcements on the mail list. Meanwhile, we are finishing the uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud branch) on master in the next few weeks as well.

This week’s meetings:

13:00 UTC – Graphics and UI Expert Group

12:00 pm UTC – Joint meeting of Instrument Cluster and System Spec Expert Groups

13:00 UTC - Weekly developer call
Open to anyone with questions about AGL code or issues they may be having.

13:00 UTC - App Framework and Security Expert Group

13:00 UTC - System Architecture Team

The full AGL calendar can always be found at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=linuxfoundation.org_i0rs8amkm0flde7kq5u4b9tef4%40group.calendar.google.com