08/18/2021 Attendees: Charles Short, Bob Church, Anthony Nowell, Scott Little, Davlet Panech, Bill Zvonar, Mark Asselstine Agenda items: 1. OS Distro (Mark) * NOTE: Debian Bullseye was released (Aug. 14th, 2021) * 5.10 kernel WRT CentOS - stable updates still pending, plan for in the next week or so * Changes continue to be sent for review on Gerrit (thanks everyone for providing reviews and feedback) * Debian directory structure refinement continues * real world use is providing insight to support current structure or push for changes * expect refinement for a while yet * A spec will most likely be sent in the coming weeks to wrap up this activity and finalize a v1.0 of the design (Bob) * The STX tool is gaining a 'build' module to wrap typical build operations, will be sent for review once it is in good enough shape * Followup work such as specs for Installer and/or Ostree will be worked on over next month or so (Bob and Mark) 2. Python3 (Bob) * Work on py3 with CentOS 8 has hit the end of its usefulness, activities will be shifted to Debian * Focus on supporting packages for things like Puppet and Ansible to start (to enable initial standup of a core system) * Work on py3 will provide further feedback for things like the build system and Debian directory structure * py3 v3.9 gates transition for Gerrit underway (see mailing list "Support for Python3.9" email) 3. Misc * Kernel 5.10 refinement underway - since the kernel version uplift is rather large the available Kconfigs have changed quite a bit, please provide any feedback on the .config used for either the standard or low latency kernels * Please continue to provide feedback on the Debian folder structure via the mailing list thread "Layout of the debian folder"