[libre-riscv-dev] getting important: need to create the project plan, involves estimating times for tasks (and creating them)

[Aleksandar Kostovic]

"So would you be happy with say USD 1500 to do the sqrt FP? Yes you get the
choice to be included. Will need you on the MoU to do so, ideally."

I would be more than happy with that! :)

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 21:32 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Thursday, April 25, 2019, Aleksandar Kostovic <
> alexandar.kostovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > so i can lay out the plan for the FPU:
> > - create sqrt function
> > - create test for sqrt function
> > - run the tests for the whole FPU
> >
> >
> Record that here
>
>  http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43
>
> I dont have a time frame on that but i do think it will be done by the end
> > of May(design can be done fairly quickly, but we need to run LOTS of
> tests
> > to prove its working).
>
>
> And track down a way to do that, yes.
> http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html
>
> Ah apparently softfloat has sqrt so that's fine. Adapt test_add.py to pass
> single arg, not a problem.
>
> So would you be happy with say USD 1500 to do the sqrt FP? Yes you get the
> choice to be included. Will need you on the MoU to do so, ideally.
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:51 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <
> > lkcl at lkcl.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > ok so nice conversation with michiel, he said basically don't worry
> > > about fine-level granularity, just make some rough cost estimates, and
> > > if they think it's like an order of magnitude out, they'll query it,
> > > otherwise it can be adjusted as progress is made.
> > >
> > > the main thing they want is a list of:
> > >
> > > * summary of milestone
> > > * one/two-line paragraph
> > > * budget (paid on completion)
> > >
> > > also, because we have already started, anything done since february
> > > 1st they can consider *retrospectively* to include as "done" and pay
> > > for.
> > >
> > > so, jacob, for example, creating a "group" of those Kazan tasks, and
> > > allocating them to a given milestone, that would work.
> > >
> > > we want to put budgets on the *leaf* node sub-tasks obviously, not
> > > further up, otherwise there would be double-counting.
> > >
> > > i will add a field "budget" to the bugtracker database.
> > >
> > > l.
> > >
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