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Demystifying West

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Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-08-26· at 11:55· G105 (Level 1)· [python]

speaker

name:Carles Cufí
bluesky:carlescufi.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/cfVMg07bGFA
slides:none on file

summary

West is Zephyr’s CLI that actually manages multi-repo workspaces via a YAML manifest, avoids git submodules, and is written in Python and published on PyPI. It clones projects, supports frozen SHAs or branch tracking, offers manifests (west.yaml) with imports and overrides, and preserves local work with keep-descendants / rebase behavior; Nordic accounts for roughly 25% of Zephyr contributions. Extension commands integrate build/flash/debug, a GitHub manifest action shows PR diffs, and an unmerged cache PR promises faster clones.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00West introduction
  2. 10:29Why West was developed
  3. 22:00West workspace and manifest
  4. 31:32West extensions and config
  5. 38:16West future and ecosystem

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