[trustable-software] Trustable project for certification of operating system distributions

Niall Dalton niall.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 21:02:06 BST 2018


Yes, very much approve of the work being attempted. We intend to both
consume and support however possible. That includes our internal use at
Tensyr, and we also hope to make it the recommended platform for our
customers building semi- and fully-autonomous vehicles.


On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:15 AM Paul Sherwood <paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all
> On 2018-06-29 18:47, Paul Sherwood wrote:
> > as a result of various conversations with existing and potential
> > customers, and building on the discussions here over the last two
> > years, Codethink is planning a new project to establish requirements,
> > software, infrastructure and best-practices with the aim of
> > demonstrating how operating system software can be considered
> > trustable for use in regulated industry applications.
> <snip>
>
> this project is now getting started at [1] with its own mailing list
> [2]. Conversation is on #trustable on freenode. We'll be attempting to
> dogfood some of the trustable hypothesis concepts [3] and the new PoC
> gitect [4] project for evidence collection.
>
> We've immediately hit a corner case [5], i.e.
> - I've already expressed intents for the work (via the previous email
> and in some text in the git repo
> - however we have no approvals for the work, which defeats the idea of
> demonstrating independent reviews and sign-offs.
>
> So in order to close this particular gap...
>
> *** please could readers of this email reply to indicate that you
> approve of the work being attempted (if you do)? ***
>
> I think we need at least two people independent from me/Codethink to say
> "yes" this is worth a shot.
>
> Conversely if you have concerns or proposals I'd be happy to hear those
> too.
>
> br
> Paul
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/trustable/distros/overview
> [2]
>
> https://lists.trustable.io/cgi-bin/mailman/private/trustable-distros/2018-July/thread.html
> [3] https://gitlab.com/trustable/workflow/blob/master/definitions.md
> [4] https://gitlab.com/trustable/gitect
> [5] https://gitlab.com/trustable/distros/overview/issues/2
>
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