[GSoC] Persistent & Scheduled Firmware Upgrades

[nemesifier]

Official thread for this GSoC idea, ask questions and announce your interest here.

[SAMurai-16]

Hi @nemesifier I am interested in this one, I was going through the issue raised in which you mentioned using existing UpgradeOperation model with retry_count and scheduled_time fields.

Would you be open to enhancing the current status field into a more comprehensive state machine? For example:

Current: status = 'failed' (ambiguous - permanently failed vs waiting for retry?)
Proposed: status with states like 'waiting_for_device', 'scheduled_retry', 'permanently_failed'

This would provide clearer semantics while still using the existing model structure. What's your preference?

[nemesifier]

Current: status = 'failed' (ambiguous - permanently failed vs waiting for retry?)

I argue this is not needed. The definition of failed is exactly that: could not reconnect after the upgrade.

Proposed: status with states like 'waiting_for_device', 'scheduled_retry', 'permanently_failed'

This would provide clearer semantics while still using the existing model structure. What's your preference?

We could add a status for the scheduled upgrades. Not sure about waiting_for_device, it could be useful, but I'll seek an opinion from our UX experts before committing. This detail doesn't impact the rest of the code in a way that it needs to be decided now or does it?

[SAMurai-16]

I believe it will not impact the rest of the code much.