Embedded Working Group Meeting 2023-05-09

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• adamgreig
• dirbaio
• newAM
• therealprof
• eldruin

Agenda

• Announcements
• bors deprecation https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/671
• pt-br translation of discovery book https://github.com/rust-embedded/discovery/pull/523
• Cortex-M
  • Make HardFaultTrampoline optional? https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/issues/406
• Still looking for new maintainers for aarch64-cpu crate
• embedded-hal
  • More people have appeared needing to delay inside an spi transaction, so maybe adding a Delay(microseconds: u32) operation to the enum is a worthwhile idea
    • Discussed this further, no conclusions yet

Last Week's Minutes

• Announcements
  • embedded-hal v1.0.0-alpha.10 released
    • and e-h-async-v0.2.0-alpha.1
    • e-h-bus v0.1.0-alpha.2
    • e-h-nb v1.0.0-alpha.2
  • New probe-run 0.3.8 out, but note some issues around defmt and reset handling
    • https://github.com/knurling-rs/probe-run/issues/391
    • https://github.com/rp-rs/rp-hal/issues/581
• bors is being deprecated https://bors.tech/newsletter/2023/05/01/tmib-76/
  • keep using bors for now?
  • host our own bors-ng?
  • try to use the rust-lang homu instance?
  • use gh merge queue instead?
  • discussed some options, will open a wg issue to track
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/671
• embedded-hal
  • closed PR for unbuffered uart
    • TBC: use embedded-io for uart?
    • if so, move to WG? remove serial::Write?
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal/pull/349#issuecomment-1499465364
  • SPI flushing/blocking
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal/issues/455
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal/pull/456
• team discussions deprecated May 8
  • https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/collaborating-with-your-team/about-team-discussions
  • there is a way to transfer to GitHub Discussions, see button on https://github.com/orgs/rust-embedded/teams/all for example
  • however, discussions must be transferred to a specific repository, where visibility then goes by the repository access instead of whatever team the discussion came from
  • it seems like the discussion text won't be deleted yet/soon, so no rush to act for now
• launching-pad and the leadership council rep
  • linked to zulip for discussions and nominations: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/384197-t-launching-pad
  • watch this space for further news