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From: Mark W. <mj...@re...> - 2013-09-03 14:56:21
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Hi Valgrind Hackers, On freenode irc #valgrind we were discussing whether the valgrind hackers could meet during Fosdem. As the http://fosdem.org/ site says: FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM 2014 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February 2014. That is in Brussels, Belgium. Would people like to meet during that conference? Are people interested in giving some presentation or do a hackfest on something they are working on (a new tool, some core changes, VEX, a new port, or just future ideas) during Fosdem? We could ask for a developer for a couple of hours: https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/ Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Content may be scheduled in any format, subject to approval. Popular formats include presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged. If people are interested then I will sent a proposal for a Valgrind devroom to the Fosdem organisers. Thanks, Mark |
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From: Vasily G. <vas...@gm...> - 2013-09-03 18:49:37
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Hi, I think it is a brilliant idea! I hope I will be able to participate, but I am not sure right now. I will try to look at my plans and budgets and say definitely, soon. About presentations... My achievements are not quite large (a couple syscalls, some VEX instructions for ARM). And now I try do smth related to the improvements of callgraphs for ARM. I think I can show a couple of slides if it is interesting for others. I read a lot of Valgrind related articles (valgrind, memcheck, callgrind, aprof, etc.) For me, it will be very interesting to see presentations about current work of Community =) Vasily On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Mark Wielaard <mj...@re...> wrote: > Hi Valgrind Hackers, > > On freenode irc #valgrind we were discussing whether the valgrind > hackers could meet during Fosdem. > > As the http://fosdem.org/ site says: > > FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a > place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. > It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings > together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. > > FOSDEM 2014 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 1 and > Sunday 2 February 2014. That is in Brussels, Belgium. > > Would people like to meet during that conference? Are people interested > in giving some presentation or do a hackfest on something they are > working on (a new tool, some core changes, VEX, a new port, or just > future ideas) during Fosdem? > > We could ask for a developer for a couple of hours: > https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/ > > Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work > together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to > a broader subset of the community, etc. Content may be scheduled > in any format, subject to approval. Popular formats include > presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions. > Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain > boundaries are strongly encouraged. > > If people are interested then I will sent a proposal for a Valgrind > devroom to the Fosdem organisers. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-developers mailing list > Val...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers > -- Best Regards, Vasily |
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From: Philippe W. <phi...@sk...> - 2013-09-03 20:14:04
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On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 16:56 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Would people like to meet during that conference? Are people interested > in giving some presentation or do a hackfest on something they are > working on (a new tool, some core changes, VEX, a new port, or just > future ideas) during Fosdem? I will (very probably:) be at FOSDEM2014. If there are enough subjects to discuss and enough people to discuss then it looks interesting to ask for a dev room. Possible subjects to discuss/present/.... I see: * present the recent functional changes in Valgrind (i.e. this is of interest for non valgrind developpers) NB: at FOSDEM 2013, I gave a presentation in which a significant part was on some recent Valgrind changes see http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.craeynest/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem/02-ada-eurocontrol.pdf * what kind of new user functionality would be useful ? (again, this is for non valgrind developpers) new tools ? new features in existing tools ? ... * for valgrind developpers, effectively a bunch of internal changes (done or to do) could be discussed e.g. we could discuss the (currently on hold due to not solved difficulties) trial to make Valgrind "really multi-threaded e.g. transactional memory support Philippe |
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From: Florian K. <fl...@ei...> - 2013-09-05 22:04:21
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On 09/03/2013 10:14 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 16:56 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > >> Would people like to meet during that conference? Are people interested >> in giving some presentation or do a hackfest on something they are >> working on (a new tool, some core changes, VEX, a new port, or just >> future ideas) during Fosdem? > I will (very probably:) be at FOSDEM2014. I am planning to attend. Getting together is definitely a good idea. > Possible subjects to discuss/present/.... I see: What can we do to attract more developers? The state of the code base. Florian |
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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2013-09-06 09:15:39
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>> Would people like to meet during that conference? I would. Sounds like a good idea. I plan to attend. > Possible subjects to discuss/present/.... += parallelising Memcheck += parallelising the rest of the framework, and tools += should we continue to support MacOS ? += should we redo the JIT framework to reduce baseline overheads? += make Callgrind work sanely on ARM += discuss release/bugfixing strategy/policy? J |
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From: Mark W. <mj...@re...> - 2013-09-09 13:17:39
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On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 11:15 +0200, Julian Seward wrote: > >> Would people like to meet during that conference? > > I would. Sounds like a good idea. I plan to attend. I'll sent a request for a devroom to the Fosdem organizers. We should hear back around October 1st whether there is a room available for us. Then we can do some planning on who wants to talk on what and when. In general Fosdem devrooms can use whatever form people want. Formal presentations, hackatons, panel discussions or just an open discussion. > += discuss release/bugfixing strategy/policy? Hopefully I can be of some help with this. The current Fedora package of valgrind contains a lot of backports (currently 50!) of functionality already in valgrind svn trunk requested by users. It would probably be more efficient if I helped getting (some of) these into an upstream (minor) release. IMHO having a predictable time-base (minor) release of valgrind every couple of months would be very helpful. One reason for the many backports is that the next major release 3.9.0 keeps getting postponed. The trick of course is making sure these time-based releases are stable. How can we decide which feature is ready/stable enough when? It would be nice to invite other valgrind packagers and talk about how they handle releases, updates and patches. And how people are handling default (system wide) suppressions. Another idea is to invite some of the hackers of tools that valgrind interfaces with. It would be nice to discuss with GDB hackers how to make the valgrind gdbserver integration even smoother (they are working on support for one gdb process to talk to multiple gdbservers, and the valgrind gdbserver could implement the multiprocess aware extensions that might make starting processes under valgrind from gdb easier). The Eclipse Linux Tools Project has valgrind support http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/projectPages/valgrind/ They might be able to give feedback on how to make it easier to integrate things. There are probably other projects with which we could discuss integration points. Cheers, Mark |
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From: Mark W. <mj...@re...> - 2013-10-03 07:27:28
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On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 15:17 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 11:15 +0200, Julian Seward wrote: > > >> Would people like to meet during that conference? > > > > I would. Sounds like a good idea. I plan to attend. > > I'll sent a request for a devroom to the Fosdem organizers. We should > hear back around October 1st whether there is a room available for us. Good news! Valgrind will have a developer room during Fosdem on Sunday 2 February 2014. https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-10-02-accepted-devrooms/ There is not much more information than that yet. I'll update the list when we get precise information about times, room size, etc. Cheers, Mark |