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Re: [oc] Inquiry
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:08, Charles Lepple wrote:
> John Dalton wrote:
> > a) Opencores becomes part of the Debian project. Debian have
> > lots of resources which could benefit Opencores:
> > Packaging, Bug tracking, world wide mirroring, GPG key
> > network, quality assurance program. Be aware that Debian
> > is very strict on insisting that all parts of the Debian
> > project must satisfy their free software guidelines
> > and social contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html),
> > which allows both GPL and BSD style licenses.
>
> Rather than try to become part of Debian, I think that making use of
> their QA software would be a more reasonable goal. As Andreas mentioned,
> packaging the cores in Debian wouldn't be a very good logical fit, but
> a lot of Debian's methods are applicable to OpenCores. That would also
> ensure that people looking for OpenCores-specific bugs wouldn't get lost
> among all of the non-core-related areas of Debian.
Guys,
I don't know about this auto build/auto check/auto
judging system.
I mean it does sound great for somebody who is browsing
through the web site and want to get a quick look at
some IP core. But in reality I doubt that can be really
made to work properly. Just to many issues to do this
right. You need linters for both languages. You assume
that all users have a linter. They can be quite expensive.
You need synthesis tools. How are you going to make sure
the test bench is any good ? Toggle coverage ? Gee, good
luck. Who is going to maintain it all ? This is a lot of
work, and I know I don't have the time to provide that
much of free support for all my cores.
And then all the great ideas about documentation. I don't
have the time to learn XML. I just finally switched to the
free OfficeTools that came with Linux, learned how to use
them, how to make simple drawings and somewhat decent
looking docs. And now XMl too ? Sorry can't do that !
Don't get me wrong it all does sound great and probably
would be really really cool to have, but who's going to
do it all ? Remember we are talking about free IP cores
that have been donated. If that the amount of work I have
to put in to donate an IP core, I'll think twice before
doing that.
Best Regards,
rudi
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