# Minutes
+Links
+
+* http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-sim/2021-July/000000.html
+* https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663
+* https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html
+* https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=hdl-dev-repos;h=d1751d2f68516575ab191c743b69635b053e47e0;hb=HEAD
+* https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175
+* https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated
+
Minutes of Meeting
+```
Date: August 6, Friday
Time: Started at 6:30 p.m. IST
Participants: Luke Leighton, David Calderhood and the Object Automation team
-In the last call, Luke told everybody to go through the 6 steps mentioned in “How can I help as a developer” listed in the https://libre-soc.org/.
+In the last call, Luke told everybody to go through the 6 steps
+mentioned in “How can I help as a developer” listed in the
+https://libre-soc.org/.
Arjun asked whether everyone had completed it.
Luke asked if anyone had any questions about the process.
-Aditya asked what kind of skill sets do we have to provide? Luke explained skill sets such as verilog, circuit point design, gate-level design experience. Free software projects and online repository for those. Do you have any web site?, etc. and these have to be in brief.
+Aditya asked what kind of skill sets do we have to provide? Luke explained
+skill sets such as verilog, circuit point design, gate-level design
+experience. Free software projects and online repository for those. Do
+you have any web site?, etc. and these have to be in brief.
-On joining the mailing list, “libre-soc-dev” is the best one, Luke asked to read the HDL workflow and become familiar with how to interact with people on the mailing list.
+On joining the mailing list, “libre-soc-dev” is the best one, Luke
+asked to read the HDL workflow and become familiar with how to interact
+with people on the mailing list.
Luke talked about etiquette on using mailing lists.
Action Item:
Gmail e-mail IDs and Object Automation e-mail IDs were sent to Luke and David.
-GitHub access will be provided after the employees agree to the Libre-SoC’s 4 charter.
+GitHub access will be provided after the employees agree to the
+Libre-SoC’s 4 charter.
The charters are:
1) Always do good
3) Everyone knows the code.
4) The code applies 100% of the time.
-Luke talked about the wiki page, bug tracker, email thread and cross-reference.
+Luke talked about the wiki page, bug tracker, email thread and
+cross-reference.
.
Questions posted in the IRC log will be answered within 36 hours.
1) Luke said 8 GB RAM is ok, but having 18GB RAM is better.
2) The larger the resolution screen is better.
-Luke said he has access to 2 workstations with 24 cores, 72 threads and 128 GB RAM.
-Once we agree to the charter, he will provide an SSH key to that machine.
+Luke said he has access to 2 workstations with 24 cores, 72 threads and
+128 GB RAM. Once we agree to the charter, he will provide an SSH key
+to that machine.
With a minimum of 8GB, one can do HTL simulations, run unit tests locally.
-Luke told everybody to read the HTL workflow documentation info. It has important information on projects, interacting with other people and other basic things.
+Luke told everybody to read the HTL workflow documentation info. It has
+important information on projects, interacting with other people and
+other basic things.
No code is written without unitest.
Luke said they have dev and set up scripts.
-Luke shared his 25 years of experience in managing free software projects and collaborative project management.
+Luke shared his 25 years of experience in managing free software projects
+and collaborative project management.
-Luke has these dev and setup scripts, which allow you to automatically install Operating System dependencies and softwares.
-Luke said installing Ubuntu is sufficient.
+Luke has these dev and setup scripts, which allow you to automatically
+install Operating System dependencies and softwares. Luke said installing
+Ubuntu is sufficient.
Whenever a task is completed, commit and push have to be done immediately.
He also said we are paid for completion of tasks not by time.
1) Adding a few signals to wishbone. Budget is 2500 euros. Bug 244
2) Reference implementation in verilog. Budget is 1350 euros. Bug 246
-Arjun asked any documentation is available
-Luke said if something is missing, we would like to document and put it on wiki.
-.
-Wiki is a git repository. You will be able to git clone the entire contents of the markdown files containing wiki documentation. You will be able to do local search on local computers.
+Arjun asked any documentation is available Luke said if something is
+missing, we would like to document and put it on wiki. . Wiki is a
+git repository. You will be able to git clone the entire contents of
+the markdown files containing wiki documentation. You will be able to
+do local search on local computers.
Bug 175 is the critical one to start.
-Luke talked about the dev setup scripts, which are used to clone multiple repositories. To do the above, we can use this URL: https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated.
+Luke talked about the dev setup scripts, which are used to clone
+multiple repositories. To do the above, we can use this URL:
+https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated.
There is also a walkthrough YouTube video available.
Arjun said the review will happen on Fridays.
Luke said Robert Baruch’s tutorial is the best one to learn nMigen.
-
+```
-Please find the links that were shared on August 6 and August 10.
-
-August 6
-http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-sim/2021-July/000000.html
-https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663
-https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html
-https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=hdl-dev-repos;h=d1751d2f68516575ab191c743b69635b053e47e0;hb=HEAD
-https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175
-https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated
-
-
+Please find the links that were shared on August 10.
August 10
-https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=libreriscv.git;a=summary
-https://libre-soc.org/about_us/
-https://gparted.org/livecd.php
-https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
-https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/10.10.0/amd64/iso-cd/
-https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview
-https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=mk-deb-chroot;h=6267491c339a010ff4aa93bf9311fe7b0257624a;hb=bf5a638be381305195deb3a39623d406141bda42
-
-
+* https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=libreriscv.git;a=summary
+* https://libre-soc.org/about_us/
+* https://gparted.org/livecd.php
+* https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
+* https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/10.10.0/amd64/iso-cd/
+* https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview
+* https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=mk-deb-chroot;h=6267491c339a010ff4aa93bf9311fe7b0257624a;hb=bf5a638be381305195deb3a39623d406141bda42
+
+```
From August 8th, we are using the libre-soc wiki to post our MoM.
-Luke asked me to transfer the August 6th MoM to this link, http://libre-soc.org/oa/minutes/2021aug06
+Luke asked me to transfer the August 6th MoM to this link,
+http://libre-soc.org/oa/minutes/2021aug06
-Luke said when we post any content to the webpage, a git commit happens at the back end.
+Luke said when we post any content to the webpage, a git commit happens
+at the back end.
-Luke created a 1.15 numbering named Object Automation at https://libre-soc.org/about_us/.
-Here Luke explained how all the employees of Object Automation can post their skill sets using Cesar Strauss as template.
+Luke created a 1.15 numbering named Object Automation at
+https://libre-soc.org/about_us/. Here Luke explained how all the
+employees of Object Automation can post their skill sets using Cesar
+Strauss as template.
-He was also talking about Bugtracker assignments and how to install OS and dev. environment without an account.
+He was also talking about Bugtracker assignments and how to install OS
+and dev. environment without an account.
He asked whether all are having a 64-bit system.
He was talking about debian. How to burn an iso file to USB on Windows.
-He said if Ubuntu is installed already, it is not necessary to install debian 10.
+He said if Ubuntu is installed already, it is not necessary to install
+debian 10.
-If we have Ubuntu, just clone the dev-env-setup script and just run with the chroot name, it will give the isolated environment containing tools.
+If we have Ubuntu, just clone the dev-env-setup script and just run with
+the chroot name, it will give the isolated environment containing tools.
These are the two tasks assigned to us:
-1) Luke asked everyone to join the mailing list on the IRC channel and send an email to the Group.
+1) Luke asked everyone to join the mailing list on the IRC channel and
+ send an email to the Group.
2) Debian/Ubuntu/Linux—any one to be installed
-
+```