[Libre-soc-dev] binutils grant decoupling

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Dmitry Selyutin via Libre-soc-dev <
libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org> wrote:
> Hi folks, as we discussed today, I'm thinking of splitting task 1212
> into a smaller subset.
> https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212

under a new bugreport, yes. we keep that one for archive/audit
purposes.

> I'm going to concentrate on stabilization, making the stuff we have so
> far be complete.

very good idea. also benefits binutils shows "how it can be done"
don't for goodness sake include VSX, you will need 5-10x more
money (!!).  10,000 instructions (!)

> That is, any activities unrelated to PPC are going to be dropped for now.

good idea

> Obviously this means some tasks will have less budget allocated (up to
> 50k), but hey.

less work less money, rule of thumb is, "always declare what
you are doing as 100% complete even if it is less than originally
planned." we work TOWARDS the milestone.

> Few questions still remain.
>
> 1. If we're forbidden as LibreSOC to make future grants for a while,
> is there any option I could join you folks as an individual?

that would likely work.

> 2. Should I keep "conferences and papers" section? It's unlikely that
> we're (me included) going to post stuff on libopid and binutils.

it tends to be documentation under that, however a video
presentation (even if not at a conference) would also
count. i'd recommend including it, as it (a) could happen
(b) increases the probability of approval.

> 3. Probably we should decouple documentation and cleanup as well,
> since we want to concentrate on a stabilization?
> 4. Could you help me with getting this right (refer to item 1 too)?

of course.

suggest cut/paste the original page (literally),
you have git/ssh access to the wiki, so you can
use cp and git add etc a lot easier than the
web frontend.

i will handle the "ancillary" stuff like linking things
into bug 938, editing https://libre-soc.org/nlnet_proposals/
and so on ok? i will very specifically mark it as a
PERSONAL grant application and it will be important to mark
it as a BINUTILS grant application not a Libre-SOC one.

> Even if you're not going to develop directly, there're still docs and
> management tasks.

indeed.



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