Product Idea: USB Flash Drives

[barray]

Have you talked about the project idea in chat, Pine community chat is usually pretty good at getting everyone's attention?

No, but I did and you were in the IRC chat.

@dsimic We have been suggested to make a wiki page, hence: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineFlash We are still discussing (as I write) how such a thing can be linked to, making it clear it is community driven at this stage. We should use this space to consolidate the ideas from these discussions.

One thing I saw on another software project, was automated testing. Anytime a feature was changed or added, a test routine was changed or added to specifically test that change or addition.

For sure we will need tonnes of testing - losing data is unacceptable and we should guard against that in every way possible. Being open source we can make this effort very clear.

Start with simpler firmware without encryption or UAS / UASP, (USB attached SCSI protocol), and make the test routines verify those features. Then move on to more important features.

That would be the intention - to develop this incrementally