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 >> >> >>
