Nikita and a summer of code

[Aamot Software]

85% of the completed code is not bad to be a free GPL Noark 5 core!

https://codeberg.org/noark

Keep up, Thomas and Petter!

Best,
Ole

Den 2023-08-09 14:03, skrev Thomas Sødring via nikita-noark:
> Where is nikita now?  That is a difficult question to answer. My gut
> feeling is that we are at 85% of the code required to be a Noark 5
> core, and we have been here for the last two years or more. Like the
> 1% example, I am left wondering how to prioritise the remaining 15%.
> The question I should ask is why haven't we managed to prioritise the
> remaining 15% already. It is like we are stuck in mud, but I think we
> just need to pick up and move on. My goal now is to start working with
> the runtest tool again and pick up the xfailures (expected failures)
> that are being reported. We also need to spend some time on the API
> spec and look at the fine details, as well as making sure that nikita
> and the spec are in sync. Perhaps, the reason I have not managed to
> prioritise the remaining 15% is that it requires a few hundred hours
> of undisturbed development sprints. I started the Spring boot upgrade
> branch last November and only finished it recently. The amount of
> concentration that was required and tracing across the codebase and
> continual new problems that appeared tells me that this kind of task
> is not something that you can just pick up and drop here and there.
> The cleanup work and restructuring will hopefully mean that later
> upgrades will be so difficult!