Subject: Re: [IBIS] Open Source IBIS Parser
From: Ambrish Kant Varma (akvarma@unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 10:41:31 PDT
Hi,
I have been following the debate on s2ibis2 and the future development of
s2ibis3.
We have a group at NC STATE University that is looking into this
very project and making every effort to come up with the new version
as per the Project Requirements for Spice to Ibis Translator,
Rev1.0 Nov19th, 1999.
As the development environment has changed and past developers finding
greener pastures, there is a certain delay in coming up with the goods.
Thanks and Regards,
Ambrish Varma
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Kim Helliwell wrote:
> I think I can answer the following:
>
> On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 06:03 PM, Ross, Bob wrote:
>
> >
> > What puzzles me is that there has been a compelling need for s2ibis2
> > improvements and s2ibis3 development. A requirements document exists.
> > Even public baseline code exists. This is needed to address Quality
> > model issues at the source. This source code is freely available. So
> > why does not an open-source community exist for s2ibis improvements?
> >
> > Bob Ross
> > Mentor Graphics
> >
>
> I think for an open source project to be viable, there
> has to be a gatekeeper and a group of committers
> that accept fixes.
>
> If I did make a fix to s2ibis2, where would I send it
> to get it into the "official" version? I just visited
> the University of South Carolina website for the code,
> and although no dates are given, the fact that s2ibis2
> still only supports IBIS 2.1 suggests that it's been a while
> since there has been any University interest in this
> project.
>
> In fact, on Mentor's own website are some updates
> to s2ibis2: a port to Linux contributed by Cisco, and
> a fix or two contributed by others. So I don't think
> you can claim there is no OS interest in s2ibis2. I
> think that if there were a perception that there was
> an active gatekeeper, perhaps several other fixes
> would be submitted as well.
>
Ambrish K Varma
akvarma@ncsu.edu
(919)513-2015
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