[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 939] NLnet 2021 cavatools proposal 2021-08-071

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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
report on cavatools project.

background:

luke leighton has been subjected for 16 years to domestic verbal abuse,
fleeing for his life from his home on 11 sep 2023. an online article
on the chronic damage caused by narcissim is here:

  https://www.drlamcoaching.com/blog/adrenal-fatigue-and-narcissism/

the article outlines a number of key severely debilitating physical
health conditions, the main effects being NEUROLOGICAL damage, and
zero tolerance to stress. luke now also has PTSD, in addition to
Autism, and also has chronic recurrent glandular fever.

the combination of Chronic Adrenal Fatigue and autism is extreme in its
consequences, if distressed: IMMEDIATE shock occurs, which combined with
the glandular fever (triggered by cortisol, the stress hormone), results
in near-instantaneous throat constriction sufficient to make breathing
extremely difficult, in some cases requiring hard pressure on his windpipe
to temporarily alleviate. summary: stress places luke at risk of DEATH.

virtually nobody who has not directly witnessed this phenomena, and even
some who have, have any understanding and simply do not believe it is
either possible, or in some instances do not believe that the medical
diatress is actually occurring, even as luke is desperately struggling to
stay alive. there are now over 200 instances of risk of death by choking,
many of them video'd and documented.

NLnet i regret to report is amongst the people who have not taken this medical
phenomena into consideration, despite repeating it well over twenty times
to them. they are also aware of the "word" autism but have made no
adjustments to their communications protocols to take the risk of medical
distress, nor the possibility of death caused by the combination of CFS
Autism Glandular Fever and PTSD, into consideration.

with that background in mind the report can proceed, bearing in mind that
the effects of the Domestic Verbal Abuse by RAYMOND, as well as complete
lack of empathy by BHARVANI MARGARITIS CALDERWOOD and LEWIS, had a massive
adverse impact on luke's ability to lead the team, resulting in significant
communications failures and additinal distress for that team, losing team
members and requiring a significant adjustment to the goals achievable.

report

the original target was to port the c-based program, cavatools, to Power ISA.
the amount of money requested turned out to be much smaller than the size of
the project, in relation to the skill of available people.

the original estimates involved cavatools primary author helping to do the
port. unfortunately, the author was unable to help with the instruction
decode phase, and the project had to be shelved until someone with the
necessary expertise emerged. a second person only emerged with the skill
and expertise around october 2023.

unfortunately, this person has a significantly higher cost, which meant
that it was simply immediately impossible to achieve the original target,
because the target had been costed for the original author of cavatools
*only*.

a meeting was therefore arranged, and NLnet informed, that the project
would adapt to focus on the python-based simulator (ISACaller), and
on a drastically smaller subset of system calls. unit tests would also
be written that could later be used on a subsequent grant, focussed more
on the c-based cavatools, bootstrapping it by now checking against
known-good unit tests (using the python-based  simulator).

all of these adapted (expanded) goals, which were part of the original
objective and the original application (but not its sole objective) were
successfully achieved.

interestingly no changes were required to the milestones themselves:
the original grant application needed no adaptation: it was just that
within the flexibility of the definition of the milestones it was
possible to focus more on the python-based simulator.

however there is also something very important about the way that the
objectives were achieved: as much as possible was *done in c*. a
*c* based Power ISA decoder (as a general-purpose library) was written.
this meant that a future grant for the c-based cavatools could utilise that
c-based general-purpose library.

in all, despite the medical difficulties faced by luke (which he was
simply not aware of in any way at the time), the grant was definitely
successful. 

summary: sadly, team members were lost along the way due to harrassment
and ongoing stalking, and the mental health of everyone on the team
seriously adversely affected, but the objectives within the milestones,
which did not need changing, were successfully met.

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