So the budget is 1.25 months of work for fields 1,2, unknown for fields
3,4,5. Given the numbers, fields 1,2 would cost about 19K NIS.
Assuming that 3,4,5 need 2.75 months of work, the total budget is 60K
NIS (not including Lingnu's own contribution in terms of reduced
prices). I assume that it hugely underestimates the effort required in
4,5.
One way to raise the money is to identify 600 Linux users, who would
like to use Wine BiDi, and it is worth 100NIS at least for each of them,
and get 100NIS from each of them. Since I somehow managed to lead
totally MS-free life, I don't use Wine so I'm not counted among those
600.
Are there Israeli companies, which deploy Linux solutions, and for which
it is worthwhile to avoid dual-booting or virtual machines yet support
clients, who still have legacy MS-Windows applications?
If yes, it may make sense to organize them into a consortium for
supporting Wine BiDi work.
About GSoC: this is why I asked about the budget for preparing the
project for GSoC - it has to be split into student-size bites and
probably there are also other preparations as well.
--- Omer
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:56 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Omer Zak wrote:
> > How about publicizing in Linux-IL the budget needed to fix Wine BiDi in
> > terms of money, equipment and human resources?
> >
> These are rough estimates.
>
> Wine needs the following fields worked on:
> 1. Move the BiDI code into Uniscribe, where it is on Windows
> 2. Handle keyboard input language detection (essentially - rewrite
> Wine's input processing - some of it already done)
> 3. Start fixing the small bugs
> 4. Implement a BiDi edit control
> 5. Implement a BiDi rich edit control
>
> Lingnu is willing to chip in on such work, so the base for calculating
> costs is 15Knis/month. Anyone contacting me for work on unrelated
> projects should not expect those prices! 15K + employment overhead
> translates to 110NIS/hour + VAT. Lets make it a round 125 sheqels/hour
> with VAT.
>
> 1. Move the infrastructure to where it belongs, split the BiDi algorithm
> down to the components it has with Uniscribe, make sure it works as is,
> implement a glue library (called LPK.DLL on Windows) to resolve circular
> dependencies, and hook the functions back into where they are scattered
> (GDI32.DLL, Advapi32.dll etc.): about a month of work.
>
> 2. This is essential to get MSO working. A lot of the basic work is
> done. You can find it attached to bug #735. Still quite a bit of work
> getting it back into a state where it is commit ready. Lets mark it down
> as a week's worth of work, though it might take more
>
> 3. These are small bugs. None of them is too big in and on its own, but
> they do require getting 1 above resolved before they can be approached.
>
> 4. Unable to tell at this stage
>
> 5. Same as 4, only worse :-)
>
> As for getting it done with GSoC, I tried it this year, and people said
> it was too big a task. Oh well....
>
> Shachar
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