2023 02 28 TSC

MCUboot TSC 2023-02-14

Attendees

• David Brown (d3zd3z)
• David Vincze
• Dominik Ermel (de-nordic)
• Greg Shue
• Tamas Ban (tamban)

Agenda

• Reviews before 1.10.0 release.

Topics

• Go through pull requests and label some for 1.10.0 release.

  • Use a 1.10.0 milestone, initial date 2023-02-24 for rc1

• Prepare for a release.

  • To resolve for 1.10.0:
    • 5 issues
      • de-nordic to review: #1576, #1541
      • d3zd3z to review and finish #1606, and review #1618
      • wait for expressif response #1566.
    • New goal 2023-03-03 for rc1

• Unit test questions

  • assert is assumed to always be present, should change to something like always_assert.
  • Should be documentation on some of the design decisions, such as whether the code should be reusable.
  • Some platform functions are not defined within MCUboot and can differ between platforms, e.g. sizes and signedness of values.
  • Should have an architecture document that describes principles for design, even if this is a goal and not where the code is at.
  • How does MCUboot plan to support safety/security processes that are needed. Currently, there are no plans for this.

• David Vince

  • They may have some resources and/or time to improve the architecture of the code.
  • Link from Greg Software Engineering Basics for Embedded Systems

Actions

• Review 1.10.0 issues, and start release process
• Dominik to address issues mentioned above
• David Brown to address issues mentioned above
• David Brown to begin some documentation on issues related to the architecture.