[SystemSafety] Free the Standards!

[Paul Sherwood]

On 2018-11-30 08:37, Matthew Squair wrote:
> Why not start a standards wiki staffed by volunteers. First target of
> opportunity a copy left version of 61508.

For what it's worth, we already have generic infrastructure for 
documentation and software engineering in the the Trustable Software [1] 
project, and would be happy to help and support any open work towards 
useful standards for safety (and security, and the other factors that 
matter for trustability of software).

The C-Safe-Secure study group already has a wiki and mailing list there 
[2] , for example. And because it's GitLab, it's trivial to host code 
including tests and leverage community infrastructure for continuous 
integration (e.g [3]).

Pls note that the Trustable Software project is a fully voluntary 
effort, with no 'foundation' and no business plan behind it. I've been 
causing Codethink to fund some contributions, but the clear objective is 
to raise community awareness about what matters for trust of software.

If folks are interested we could set up a new group (and list, and any 
other required infrastructure) to support the community activity today.

BTW, I'm not sure that it would need to be "copy left" - a more 
permissive licence (eg Creative Commons) may be more appropriate.

br
Paul

[1] https://trustable.io
[2] https://lists.trustable.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
[3] https://gitlab.com/trustable/distros/minimal-distro/pipelines