Hello,

I would like to write a proposal to the Eclipse SDV community[0] about creating a project (i.e. a repository) to maintain an AutoSD[1] image to meet their needs while exposing our automotive platform to Eclipse SDV members.

Eclipse SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) is a working group under the eclipse foundation organization that aims to act as an umbrella OSS organization for SDV related projects[2].

AutoSD does not provide “base images” as upstream CentOS Stream but it does provide sample manifest files[3] and tooling[4] to build AutoSD images using said manifest files as source; It’s important to note that those as “sample manifest files”, meaning that they serve as example for AutoSD users to create and maintain their own manifest files.

The main reason why we do not provide a base image is because automotive use cases may vary significantly for each user and it’s tricky to provide a “base OS” that can be either extended or modified.

That being said, the proposal to Eclipse SDV is about maintaining a project (repository) in their org. that would host manifest files to build an AutoSD image that fits Eclipse SDV use-cases while using our upstream tooling to build it, that repository will only host YAML files used to build an AutoSD image, such as this one[5].

It’s important to note that the image will still be using everything else from upstream CentOS, such as RPMs, container images and so on. We are not moving any packages or source code development to Eclipse SDV, just some manifest files that will be used to build an image.

Any thoughts or concerns about doing so?

[0] - https://sdv.eclipse.org/ [1] - https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/ [2] - https://sdv.eclipse.org/projects/ [3] - https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/sample-images [4] - https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/src/automotive-image-builder [5] - https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/autosd-image-eclipse-sdv

Regards,