working-group-notes.md

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CDEvents Working Group Meeting Notes

This document contains the notes from the CDEvents Working Group.

Meeting Details

Schedule

• APAC friendly Monday meetings are held at 11am UTC during summer time and at 12pm UTC during winter time).
• NA friendly Monday meetings are held at 3pm UTC during summer time and at 4pm UTC during winter time)

Previous Years

• 2022 Meeting Notes
• 2023 Meeting Notes
• 2024 Meeting Notes
• 2025 Meeting Notes

Template

Participants:

• Name / affiliation / TZ

Links:

• v0.6 Roadmap
• Outstanding PRs

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• Action Items
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March, 24th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• cdevents/spec#302 source + id merge
  • To vote next week
• cdevents/spec#292 Link + domainId
  • Lessen scope to domain ID
  • Introduce another proposal/PR that addresses subject to subject linking.
    • Side meeting w/ David to address this
• cdevents/spec#276 automation of python
  • Rewrite in JS (David)
  • Still pending
• cdevents/spec#297 Feature Flag
  • Ping Matt on this (Ben)

March, 17th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
• Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
• David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
  • cdevents/spec#292
    • Discussion ongoing, continue offline
  • cdevents/spec#276
    • Needs to be reworked in js
  • cdevents/spec#298
    • Needs Signed-off-by in commits for DCO
• (Action) Dasisi to archive old files and notes to git to free up space on hackmd
• JSON Schema generation
  • Demo: https://github.com/davidB/sandbox_cdevents_jsonschema_generation
• CDViz include cdevents version translators tools
• David to draft a google form to find out about CDEvents user
  • Andrea to check with Kate if we can use a CDF account
• Feedback needed on cdevents/spec#252 (comment) so David can author the PR

March, 10th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• cdevents/spec#298 (Approval)
  • David has approval depends on conformance example
  • Add that after meeting
• cdevents/spec#276
  • To close and rewrite in Javascript
• cdevents/spec#252 (Revisit next week)

March, 3rd 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
• David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• cdevents/spec#298 (Approval)
  • Enums format needs documentation - Ben
  • cdevents/spec#252 slated for v0.6
  • Vote for merging next week
• cdevents/spec#292 - Ben
  • Vote for merging next week
• cdevents/spec#300 - Merged (Thanks Andrea)
• DataOps CDEvents
  • Reach out to individual projects related to data ops
  • Create a blog regarding CDEvents / What does data ops mean?
  • Creating a list of projects relevant to data ops
  • https://cdeliveryfdn.slack.com/archives/C07N3QS2KGS
• Generate JSON Schema from a meta data model
  • tried with Cuelang (but not happy with it, see the README of repo)
  • current proposal:
    • yaml (pseudo json-schema fragment)
    • typescript (to assemble, compose and generate json-schemas)
  • https://github.com/davidB/sandbox_cdevents_jsonschema_generation

February, 17th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• Andrea Frittoli, IBM, UTC
• David Bernard, Alchim312/CDviz, UTC+2
• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara
• Candace Stump, Sol Duara

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• Semantics - cdevents/spec#291 (Vote for approval next week)
• Links - cdevents/spec#292
  • Examples needed for PR
• Cherry-pick s/version/schemaversion
  • Was able to release rust SDK
  • Add CI test for json schema validator
    • Did not raise an error
    • Fix https://github.com/cdevents/spec/commit/5ac28b18ab8217313be8f81ea9c2c33ce85016d5
  • SDK consistencies
    • https://github.com/cdevents/sdk-rust?tab=readme-ov-file#features
• Devoxx French CDViz and CDEvents Talk (Paris - April 22-24)
  • Accepted - David
• Create GH issue for potentially replacing mdtoc with JS
  • When introducing new CI tooling/validation, please use JS.
• Data Ops (Victor Lu):
  • DOK (Database on Kubernetes)
  • Execution flow - core to orchestration
    • Diagram needed
      • Simple
      • Complex
• Approval event PR (next week-ish?) - Ben

February, 3rd 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific
• Victor Lu, Independent, EST

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• Action Items:
  • Website (almost ready for review) - Ben
    • February 13th goal
  • Base event criteria
    • Must have subject, context, customdata as required fields.
  • SDKs will allow for hooks into the event lifecycle
    • Serialization, deserialization, sending via protocol, receiving via protocol (HTTP)
    • SDK refactor goal is end of the month 28th of Feb
  • Data op events
    • Data ops next Wednesday 11 EST
    • CDF Calendar (DataOps Initiative SIG)

January, 27th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• Action Items:
  • namespace for SDKs? cdevents/spec#250
    • SDKs should enforce namespaces at the CustomData root level
    • Proposal for namespace - Dadisi
  • Base Event - cdevents/spec#250 & cdevents/spec#253
  • SDK proposal pattern - Ben
    • Proposal first then PR for Java SDK - Ben
  • Road map CDEvents for website - Ben
    • namespacing
    • base events
    • sdks
    • approval event - cdevents/spec#243

January, 13th 2026 (Americas)

Participants:

• Ben Powell, Apple, CST
• Dadisi Sanyika, Sol Duara, Pacific

Links:

• [v0.6 Roadmap] needs a v0.6 roadmap
• Outstanding PRs

Agenda:

• New attendees
• Review roadmap
• Look at outstanding PRs
• Look at open issues to be triaged
• Action Items
  • Mid December v0.5 was released
    • Some bugs regarding release reported by David
  • Website primer needs updating: cdevents/spec#287
    • Needs to be synced with what is currently out
    • Needs concepts like namespacing at some point
  • How will namespacing work? - Low priority
    • Namespacing will need to a first class citizen in SDKs
  • SDKs need to be more user friendly
    • Create an issue outlining the overall design for SDKs/best practices/patterns
  • Verifiability
    • Next week CloudEvents meeting, should have updated verifiability PR