[Libre-soc-dev] State of some tasks needs clarification

[Dmitry Selyutin]

Hi folks, sorry for a long absence, I've been extremely occupied with
family-related activities.
Luke, thank you for the updates!

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:12 PM lkcl <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> done

Thank you!

>> Some tasks seem to
>> be outdated.
>> 1. 1054, 1056,
>
> these need a writeup (by someone other than me)

Jacob, could you handle this, please?

>> 1079, 1083, 1089 -- what's their state?
>>  What's the goal
>> when I can consider these done on my part?
>
> i am no longer working on them. someone else will have to take over
> and complete them.

Based on the last few comments I believe these have been stopped at
the openpower-isa stage.
I'm not immersed enough to handle this part, but, once this stage is
done, I can update binutils respectively.

>> 3. 1063 is marked as resolved; I assume this means RFP for it can be
>> submitted. Is this correct?
>
> of course. you can see i submitted an RFP on 2023-06-22

Thanks for clarification! I'll submit it once #1068 is unblocked.

>> 2. 1035 needs support (or at least re-checking) for binutils. What'd
>> be the right task to address it?
>
>  one created under 1035.
>
>> 4. 1119: comment #4 mentions there's plenty of budget to do that, but
>> it still has no budget assigned. :-)
>
> see parent  https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1035 there is
> EUR 7,000. someone (not me) has to decide how much is fair to
> allocate to 11119 then action it and then run budget-sync to make sure
> they did not destroy the Accounting / Audit / Financial Records.
>
>> 5. 1003: we had a lot of plans concerning new visitors. At least
>> binutils can be rewritten. But have we ever created tasks for these
>> activities?
>
> no that is something that, again, other people need to do and take
> responsibility for.  cavatools is where the majority of tasks involving
> use of visitors is.

OK, I'll handle tasks related to binutils.
1. Create one subtask under 1035, and assign some budget from 1035.
2. Transfer a bit of the budget for 1119 from 1035.
3. As for visitor-related, I think 979 and 980 fit this best, as
binutils continuation. I think I'll cut one of these tasks (or even
both) into parts. One part will be "backend-agnostic C code
generation", which is reused by binutils. I assume we cannot change
the budget for any of these tasks, but we can decompose them into
subtasks. Is it correct?

Do the above statements look good? I'll wait for your confirmation,
guys, so that I can be sure before I proceed.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Selyutin