[Libre-soc-dev] Introduction: Hello Everyone

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hi thomas great to hear from you.

i am really sorry to have to disclose this to you: please do
be aware that the project is under attack by two directors of
RED Semiconductor Ltd, CALDERWOOD and LEWIS. i am currently
resolving this as their actions amount to violent assault
(Grievous Bodily Harm) but it is quite complex and a very rare
form of GBH involving brain damage. i won't go into details:
suffice to say that i am making progress getting health
professionals to get through to the police (who are currently
ignorant of such a rare definition of GBH) such that they take
this violent crime seriously.

normally we would be able to say that you could get started
and once you demonstrate some aptitude we can add you to
NLnet's payments so you can actually get paid for tasks,
however due to stalking, harrassment and attempted seizure
of grant funding as well as IP by CALDERWOOD and LEWIS i have
had to call a freeze on certain categories of development,
to protect the project from exploitation.

*hopefully* i should be able to get these psychotic people
arrested for their violent crimes, soon, which will stop their
harrassment and stalking dead in its tracks, and restore the
project's reputation with our funding bodies.

until then, experience tells us that you have quite a long
and interesting learning curve ahead of you, which *hopefully*
will ramp up around the time things get resolved.

can't guarantee that, though! and really sorry you had to
even be told about this, it's a pretty unique situation,
likely the first time in FOSS history that a FOSS project
has had members subjected to violent criminal assault as part
of the attempts to seize assets, funding and control.


On Saturday, May 18, 2024, Thomas Stephens via Libre-soc-dev <
libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I have some initial questions.
>
> I see that running Debian, in particular 10, is recommended for some
> work-flows.

all workflows, not some. package dependencies are extremely
complex (150+) and can take *weeks if not months* to find
alternative stable installs (!) each time they are investigated.

we do not have such time to waste frivolously, nor need it.
hence - very simple logic dictates *do not* quotes upgrade
quotes. we have been through this muuuultiple tiiimes, and
the project management assessment and budgetary costs each
and every time come up "leave it well alone" :)


> Is that still current?

yes and will remain so. see chroot devscripts.

tip: you *can* use bind-mounts between chroots and main
OS, but watch out if you decide to "rm -fr" a chroot!

>  I'm running Linux Mint currently.
>
> What OS version do most people use around here?

i run debian/testing for most systems, been doing that
since... 1995?

*experienced* people can and do ignore the devscripts and
run on top of "latest-and-greatest" - please from long and
bitter painful experience watching people waste literally
weeks failing to install the dev env because they did not
listen, the advice i can give you is: for goodness sake
to get started juuust ruuun theee deeeev scriiiipts :)

simple commands, go go go:
https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/

if those don't work contact us immediately. otherwise...

...once you've spent many months if not years working full-time
with the project, or if you've worked with linux for a
decade+ you'll generally be experienced enough to have a
go at bypassing the devscripts, and have enough knowledge
to not need to ask "n00b questions" (which, obviously,
drain time and energy to support... which we don't have
funding to cover), but also will have by that point demonstrated
a usefulness and value which means you're actively helping move
the project forward (and getting paid to do so), and we'll
want to ensure that continues so will actively help you out.

keep in touch, remember all activity is covered by the Charter,
check the "how to help as a developer" checklist on the front
page ok?

atb,

l.



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