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

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.