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

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939

--- Comment #24 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:50:18 +0200
From: Michiel Leenaars <michiel at nlnet.nl>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
Subject: Re: Re: Get well

Dear Luke,

(dropping Brian to bcc, this is outside of the scope for him)

Thanks for initiating the writeup. This is a step in the right direction.

any embarrassment caused by your STATEMENT "you have not
achieved the goals" i cannot help you with. you should
have listened and ASKED THE QUESTION:

"it seems that you have not met the deliverables.
 have i missed anything here? what actually happened?"

Am I correct in interpreting that you suggest you are quoting us saying "you
have not achieved the goals"? Where precisely did you get this statement from?

We did write:

"For each pending payment request, please ensure there is a final comment in
the issue tracker indicating where to find the concrete outcome of the task,
along with a description and justification of any deviations from the original
description. We have attempted to understand your progress, but it is currently
opaque and lacks the previous level of structure."

What is precisely accusatory in what we wrote? We only ask for clarification,
in the clear absence of a wrap up of most invidual tasks and of the project as
a whole. What did you find unreasonable in that?

Now on the substance:

What do you hope to gain by adding your medical and relational history in a
public document that is intended as serious proof of work? This isn't about
you, for that I suggest establishing a personal blog if need be (in general I
would recommend to keep such personal matters outside of the public sphere, as
they might block future efforts). This should be a wrap-up of the work from the
Libre-SOC team, and as a project lead we expect you to keep the wrap-up
professional, factual and on topic. Accusations to e.g. your ex-wife or former
colleagues do not belong here, or in fact anywhere on the issue tracker/mailing
list/etcetera. Could you please clean this up?

The bit under "report" is the only relevant part, but it is not much more than
a narrative timeline of how you experienced the project and some decisions made
along the way. These may be relevant, but should be added to the individual
bugs the payment requests point to instead of this bug that noone will read.
This narrative timeline isn't precisely what we would need to wrap up the
project though. We need _documentation_ on Libre-SOC.org, explaining e.g. what
the c based Power ISA decoder does, where it can be found, how this should (and
should not) be used, etc. Very likely you have most of this info somewhere
and/or in your head, but the world (including us) just doesn't know where to
find it, which prevents us from being able to benefit from your collective work
- until you connect the dots. Can you help us by providing such documentation,
at a level of professionality matching the significant budget? And can you also
make sure that the repo's contain the right information on how to compile,
which dependencies are needed, etc?

In other words: can you help translate the outcomes to the target audience, in
line with the fact that this concerns tax payer money.

Best,
Michiel

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