A focused effort to do the IP clearing sounds good. If we can get funding to do it quicker, that would be great too. It's a good idea.
I did the stats that are on the wiki page for the 9.0 release. I'll see if I can run this process on the rest of the project and post the numbers to the wiki. I'll update this thread when I have some results. I'll also see if I can make PR with the scripts Brennan and I were using so that the tools can be in the main repo and anyone can use them. -adam On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:39 PM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, there is a sub page, about the status of a module at March > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/Analysis+March+2020 > > Let's try to do this on the whole project to get some numbers? > > Thanks. > > 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> 于2020年7月27日周一 上午11:32写道： > > > IMO we should at least have some numbers about the current status first, > > i.e, how many files can be cleared directly, how many can not, etc. > > > > With the numbers in hand, then we can decide whether it is possible for > us > > to finish the work, and how to finish the work. Even if we want to reach > > out for help from a 3rd party, we still need these numbers so we can > decide > > how much money we should pay... > > > > What I can see on the wiki page > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/License+Clearing > > > > is just a rough plan, there are no numbers about the current status yet. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> 于2020年7月27日周一 上午10:43写道： > > > >> We have talked a little about IP clearance on the NuttX podling project > >> but I am not sure if anyone really appreciates the magnitude of this > >> effort: There is 13 years of commits, possibly 50,000 total commits, > >> many hundreds of contributors, 1000's of files, 1.5 million lines of > >> code, and transitions through 3 different configuration management > >> systems. There is no contact information for the majority of the > >> contributors and there is no reason to believe that all contributors > >> will be cooperative. > >> > >> I think that anyone who believes that this can be done properly with the > >> part time, now-and-then effort of a couple of people is sorely > >> mistaken. I think it will require a fully dedicated, team with some > >> specialized expertise and a substantial amount of time to do. > >> > >> The only way that I can conceive of this happening is if we were to > >> contract a 3rd party software CM/QA/IV&V house to to do the job. That > >> would, of course require a serious investment of money. I am wondering > >> if we could motivate some corporate sponsors to fund such an effort. I > >> appreciate that that is a long shot but we should consider it. In the > >> past, Xiaomi, for example, as committed to supporting the licensing/IP > >> clearance effort. But I don't think that anyone really appreciated the > >> effort required at that time. > >> > >> We do have to make this happen and I don't blame anyone on the PPMC for > >> not wanting to take this on. It would cost you the next year of your > >> life .. full time. I wouldn't make that commitment and I would not > >> expect any other individual to do so either. > >> > >> We some need a plan. With no plan, the project will not graduate. Even > >> with a plan in hand, I would not expect graduation to be possible within > >> the next year or more. > >> > >> Greg > >> > >> > >> > -- Adam Feuer <a...@starcat.io>
