oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn

   1 [[!tag oa_minutes]]
   2
   3 # Minutes
   4
   5 Links
   6
   7 * http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-sim/2021-July/000000.html
   8 * https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663
   9 * https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html
  10 * https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=hdl-dev-repos;h=d1751d2f68516575ab191c743b69635b053e47e0;hb=HEAD
  11 * https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175
  12 * https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated
  13
  14
  15 Minutes of Meeting
  16
  17 ```
  18 Date: August 6, Friday
  19 Time: Started at 6:30 p.m. IST
  20 Participants: Luke Leighton, David Calderhood and the Object Automation team
  21
  22 In the last call, Luke told everybody to go through the 6 steps
  23 mentioned in “How can I help as a developer” listed in the
  24 https://libre-soc.org/.
  25
  26 Arjun asked whether everyone had completed it.
  27
  28 Luke asked if anyone had any questions about the process.
  29
  30 Aditya asked what kind of skill sets do we have to provide? Luke explained
  31 skill sets such as verilog, circuit point design, gate-level design
  32 experience. Free software projects and online repository for those. Do
  33 you have any web site?, etc. and these have to be in brief.
  34
  35 On joining the mailing list, “libre-soc-dev” is the best one, Luke
  36 asked to read the HDL workflow and become familiar with how to interact
  37 with people on the mailing list.
  38
  39 Luke talked about etiquette on using mailing lists.
  40
  41 Object Automation email IDs will be used for correspondence.
  42
  43 Action Item:
  44 Gmail e-mail IDs and Object Automation e-mail IDs were sent to Luke and David.
  45
  46 GitHub access will be provided after the employees agree to the
  47 Libre-SoC’s 4 charter.
  48
  49 The charters are:
  50 1) Always do good
  51 2) Never do harm
  52 3) Everyone knows the code.
  53 4) The code applies 100% of the time.
  54
  55 Luke talked about the wiki page, bug tracker, email thread and
  56 cross-reference.
  57 .
  58 Questions posted in the IRC log will be answered within 36 hours.
  59
  60 Configuration and specification of the computer:
  61
  62 1) Luke said 8 GB RAM is ok, but having 18GB RAM is better.
  63 2) The larger the resolution screen is better.
  64
  65 Luke said he has access to 2 workstations with 24 cores, 72 threads and
  66 128 GB RAM.  Once we agree to the charter, he will provide an SSH key
  67 to that machine.
  68
  69 With a minimum of 8GB, one can do HTL simulations, run unit tests locally.
  70
  71 Luke told everybody to read the HTL workflow documentation info. It has
  72 important information on projects, interacting with other people and
  73 other basic things.
  74
  75 No code is written without unitest.
  76
  77 Luke said they have dev and set up scripts.
  78
  79 Luke shared his 25 years of experience in managing free software projects
  80 and collaborative project management.
  81
  82 Luke has these dev and setup scripts, which allow you to automatically
  83 install Operating System dependencies and softwares.  Luke said installing
  84 Ubuntu is sufficient.
  85
  86 Whenever a task is completed, commit and push have to be done immediately.
  87 He also said we are paid for completion of tasks not by time.
  88
  89 He said do not commit if you have not run the test.
  90
  91 Some of the work available:
  92 1) Adding a few signals to wishbone. Budget is 2500 euros. Bug 244
  93 2) Reference implementation in verilog. Budget is 1350 euros. Bug 246
  94
  95 Arjun asked any documentation is available Luke said if something is
  96 missing, we would like to document and put it on wiki.  .  Wiki is a
  97 git repository. You will be able to  git clone the entire contents of
  98 the markdown files containing wiki documentation. You will be able to
  99 do local search on local computers.
 100
 101 Bug 175 is the critical one to start.
 102
 103 Luke talked about the dev setup scripts, which are used to clone
 104 multiple repositories. To do the above, we can use this URL:
 105 https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated.
 106
 107 There is also a walkthrough YouTube video available.
 108
 109 Arjun said the review will happen on Fridays.
 110
 111 Luke said Robert Baruch’s tutorial is the best one to learn nMigen.
 112 ```