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:

Monday
13:00 UTC – Graphics and UI Expert Group

Tuesday

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.

Wednesday
13:00 UTC - Speech Expert Group

14:00 UTC - Virtualization Expert Group

Thursday
13:00 UTC - Connectivity Expert Group

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

Past editions of the newsletter can be found here.