Embedded Working Group Meeting 2024-03-05

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Announcements
- svdtools 0.3.11 released
- Nominations open for leadership council rep https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/384197-t-launching-pad/topic/Renewal.20or.20Replacement.20of.20Rep/near/424772820
@mabez has received merge rights, along with crates.io access to japaric/aligned. Do you think we should transfer it to r-e-c, or perhaps even r-e?
- Go for r-e-c for now
question from Adam H. about Discovery Book website

Announcements
- Leadership council representative elections
  - https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/02/19/leadership-council-repr-selection.html
  - https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/384197-t-launching-pad/topic/Renewal.20or.20Replacement.20of.20Rep
- svd2rust 0.32.0, svdtools 0.3.10 released
Rusty Bytes Podcast released
https://media.rss.com/rustybytes/feed.xml
Discuss deprecating https://github.com/rust-embedded/fixedvec-rs ?
- Decided yes, can probably go ahead with this
guidance on error handling/propagation of drivers https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal/issues/576
- Drivers should pass errors up, generally by using generics unless std is available
discussed future deprecation of volatile-register and friends