2025-10-30 Meeting notes

2025-10-30 Meeting notes

Date

Oct 30, 2025

Goals

  • Sync

Discussion items

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Feedback AMM

@Paul Boyes

@Chaitanya Podalakuru

@Stephen Lawrence

  • Overall positive

  • Some still confused by API and not SDL used as data modeling only!

    • This issue is acknowledged by others in the round

  • Still some level of complexity is seen by non-modelers

  • Suggestions or concerns:

    • Why not DDS?

    • Why not protobuf + gRPC?

    • Why not ….

VDM scope

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

  • Operational mode explained

    • Modular by nature

    • Sub domains are stand alone project that covesa can host

    • Each sub domain would have dedicated SMEs group

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Roadmap

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

  • Roadmap is split into two areas

    • top → Modeling approach itself

      • Federation means being able to have distributed authorship of models that are compatible

    • bottom → application of the modeling approach to achieve the so-called VDM

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Expected commitment?

All

  • MongoDB @Rami Pinto Prieto & Humza Akhtar

    • Interest in contributing

    • showing the needs of the application layer and who this can benefit it

    • Bringing the database view and practical details

  • Michael Höret

    • SMEs can contribute to a model in COVESA

    • Interest, but will learn more about it

  • @Stephen Lawrence

    • Bringing best practices in DDD and data mesh (see article on using 4 principles of Data Mesh)

    • VDM support in COVESA Central Data Service Playground (e.g. in data servers and Information and Knowledge Layers) including in upcoming use-case development.

 

 

 

Action items

Future examples should maybe start by showing the needs in the application layer (e.g., a particular database) to demystify the actual use of SDL.
Publish PiPy package ASAP as part of the semantic versioning releases.