2023 01 27 board

January 27, 2022 MCUboot Governance Board Meeting

Attendees:

• David Brown (Linaro)
• Eric Finco (ST)
• Tamas Ban (Arm)
• Andrzej Puzdrowski (Nordic)
• Dominik Ermel (Nordic)
• Jamie McCrae (Nordic)

Agenda:

• Status
• MCUBoot / TF.org proposal

Topics:

quorum (4 of 6)

• Status

  • 35 new commits since December

• MCUBoot / TF.org proposal

  • motion by the chair to approve the proposal to move MCUBoot into tf.org (second Tamas)
  • vote passed - David will alert tf.org the MCUBoot board is ok with them making a formal proposal to move forward
  • use of current funds one issue to resolve
  • Eric in favor to move the money to tf.org
  • David indicated the default option is that the funds move over to tf.org
  • Next step - need a decision from the tf.org board they want to proceed and their proposal to do so
  • Next tf.org board meeting in February 15th
  • Discussion about the timing of the proposal, mcuboot member renewals and the merger

Actions:

• David Brown: Will approach Shebu, inform them of the timing and issue around membership renewals for mcuboot
• David Brown : Will contact members who are not present for this meeting
• David Brown: Analyze Zephyr, TF-M, and MyNewt releases to find schedule for MCUboot releases.
• David Brown: Document pre-release plan, so we document what has been tested in the release, and what has not.

Followup:

• David Brown: Investigate how we could "hire" somone
  • On hold for the time being
• David Brown: Create a list of tasks for hired person, for board vote
  • On hold for the time being
• David Brown: Update the membership list on the website.
  • no action yet