[gNewSense-users] Re: Kernel Freedom Verification (KFV) Contributions (MAIN)

[Chris Andrew]

Christophe,

Thanks for the update.  In order to help you achieve your objective
(which ill be good for gNS and the wider GNU/Linux community), is
there anything that we can help with?  If anything is stopping you
from getting the job done, please let me know.

Thank you,

Chris.

On 21/03/2008, Christophe Jarry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>   The KFV statistics table is empty because I still haven't finished
>  writing the script that could summarize the amount of work already done.
>  Even if it was written, it first needs a reformatting of the old tables
>  to let the script follow hyperlinks in the tables (to jump from table to
>  table) and then calculate the degree of progression.
>
>   The PFV was easier as there were no subfolders of subfolders, so every
>  checker could easily complete the big table of 'packages in MAIN' and
>  the MarkusPFVscript summarized the content.
>
>   To have stats of the KFV, the work that have to be done is as follow:
>
>  - reformat all old tables to avoid multipointing urls, for this, I wrote
>  the TableFormat.sh - script completed, the reformatting is still in
>  progress;
>  - calculate the number of files that have been checked, and their
>  freedom status, and summarize the results in the
>  http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Image table - script still in progress;
>  - summarize the data of the previous table using a modified Markus PFV
>  script - script has already been modified to achieve this, I'll release
>  it when the second script will be completely written and working.
>
>   The links in the table http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Image don't
>  contain anything yet, because the old tables need to be moved to the new
>  formatted urls adresses pointed by the new table (the old urls are still
>  there to help moving the tables - please don't delete it until new
>  formatting has been done).
>
>   Hope my explanations are understandable :/
>
>
>   Christophe
>
>
>
>  > Christophe,
>  >
>  > I'm confused about the work needed to populate the _Kernel Freedom
>  > Verification (KFV) Contributions (MAIN)_ table.  Can you tell me where
>  > we are with this?  It looks a bit empty at the moment.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > Chris.
>  >
>
>
>


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