A lot of the timeline depends on the partner we're working with to achieve qualification. Initial qualification definitely takes longer, but we're having discussions on how we can cut down on the manual part of the certification. We do for example pull in all releases of the compiler, including nightly, and build them using our CI and test sytems. The versions that pass are made available to our customers, so they can follow the release cycle - though these are obviously not qualified and nightly comes with the usual nightly (lack of) stability guarantees.
I obviously can't make any promises here, but we aim to pick two of those rust versions per year and then certify them - how long that takes depends on the feedback we get from the auditor and on their availability. The exact cadence will need a little shakedown - no one has experience in qualifying rust compilers continously :)
I obviously can't make any promises here, but we aim to pick two of those rust versions per year and then certify them - how long that takes depends on the feedback we get from the auditor and on their availability. The exact cadence will need a little shakedown - no one has experience in qualifying rust compilers continously :)