The Update Framework (TUF)

Term 3 · Sep-Nov · 1 project

• Add ELI5 documentation / video to TUF

  LFX Mentorship · Listed in the official cohort

  @JustinCapposSource IssueLFX portal

  We've heard from some potential adopters that TUF is hard to understand. We'd like to remedy this by making documentation accessible to a five year old (ELI5). We can be flexible about whether the end result is video, web site documentation, a children's book, or other format. We'd like this to be quality tested within our community and with outside users to ensure this is effective. So, you should be prepared to do this iteratively and test feedback.

  • technical writing skills
  • presentation skills
  • video editing
  • storyboarding
  • etc.

Term 1 · Mar-May · 1 project

• Metadata Repository Visualization

  LFX Mentorship · Listed in the official cohort

  Source IssueLFX portal

  A TUF metadata repository consists of signed metadata files, which are read by TUF clients when securely downloading artifacts. The metadata contains information about the artifacts and about the metadata itself, most notably, who is trusted to sign what. A suitable visual representation of this trust hierarchy makes TUF's security properties more accessible to end-users, and, more importantly, allows metadata signers to carefully review metadata changes before signing them. In this project you will, together with your mentor and the TUF community, identify requirements for the visualization of a TUF metadata repository and build a corresponding web app.

  • Front-end web development
  • Information Visualization

Term 2 · Jun-Aug · 1 project

• Documentation analysis and improvements

  LFX Mentorship · Listed in the official cohort

  @JustinCapposSource IssueLFX portal

  Open source projects need help with their documentation! The TUF project is a good place to start. We'd welcome help from others to help here and become contributors to other projects / TAGs later in the project period. The mentee will (with minimal guidance from the CNCF team and TUF project) do a CNCF analysis for the TUF documentation

  • Technical writing
  • Basic understanding of security principles