Re: GDB BoF notes - GNU Cauldron 2023

Simon Marchi via Gdb
2023-09-27T13:56:20Z

On 9/27/23 08:41, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We had a GDB BoF at the GNU Cauldron this past weekend, like in
> previous years.
>
> I was positively surprised with the attendance and the engagement.
> Thanks all!
>
> I took notes live while we were discussing. Thanks to Mark Wielaard
> for letting me use this computer. :-)
>
> Below's an edited version of the notes, with some more details filled
> in.

Thanks a lot for taking notes!

> =========== GDB BoF / GNU Cauldron 2023 ===============
>
> - Testsuite and CI discussion
>
> With either Linaro's CI and the sourceware.org buildbot, pre-commit,
> post-commit, should breakages result in emails to mailing list?
>
> Are post-commit breakage emails sent to git author only? Should go
> to git committer as well, for e.g., the scenario of a maintainer
> applying a non-maintainer's patch. AI: Talk with Maxim Kuvyrkov
> about it.
>
> Be mindful of overwhelming gdb-testers traffic. Counter argument
> raised -- list is also used as results archive.

If we decide not to send the breakage emails to gdb-patches, could we
have a list we can subscribe to, to receive breakage emails?

> - Revisiting defaults
>
> - Can we turn history saving on by default? Maybe default to
> history on home dir by default, too (~/.gdb_history). That would
> align us with bash. Some in the room have had this enabled in
> their gdbinits for so long they no longer remembered this wasn't
> on by default. Others weren't even aware you can turn this on.
>
> - Can we disable pagination by default? Surprisingly, no one in the
> room expressed that they like pagination on. Sevearl people
> mentioned that they have it off by default, and then use either
> the terminal scroll function, or:
>
> "(gdb) pipe GDB_COMMAND | less"
>
> when necessary.

I would be happy for these two changes to defaults to be made.

Simon