Sourceware - Building Together, Fri 11, 15:00 UTC

Sourceware - Building Together, Fri 11, 15:00 UTC

[Mark Wielaard]

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Hi all,

Tomorrow is the second Friday of the month, so it is time for the
Sourceware Open Office again!

Friday September 11, from 15:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC
On #overseers on irc.libera.chat

$ date -d "Fri Sep 10 15:00 UTC 2026"

Discussion topics about various CI builder buildbots/patchwork/etc:

- Rainer would like to extend the Solaris (amd64 and sparcv9)
  buildbot workers to gdb
  https://inbox.sourceware.org/ydd4iglf9yj.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE

- DJ would like to run the patchwork CI/CD curator in a Sourceware VM
  https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/CICDDesign
  https://gitlab.com/djdelorie/glibc-cicd
  This is also a good opportunity to discuss putting patchwork as a
  whole in its own isolated VM. And to see if we can use some of the
  builder servers/VM to use the curator to do CI builds.
  https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/servers-and-services-2026/

- Should we look into bugspray? A public-inbox bugzilla integrator:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/bugspray

- An update on funding https://sourceware.org/financials.html

- Builders/CI talk at Cauldron with tips and tricks for having all
  our automated processes (buildbots, try-bots, pre/post-commit-CI/CD,
  snapshots, forgejo runners, patchwork's curator, etc.) working smoothly,
  even in the face of the AI scraperbot attacks, and how to add your own.
https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/prg26/talk/review/YZDVBNFDPSSZERNAYRYDCS8XWF3BURZC
  The FSF (GNU Toolchain projects fiscal sponsor) and SFC
  (Sourceware fiscal sponsor) will also attend to answer any
  questions on how we are running the community infrastructure
  together with our other partners.

Sourceware relies on cooperation among a broad diversity of core
toolchain and developer tool projects, hackers, organizations,
ideas, and communication styles. The monthly Sourceware Open Office
meetings are one way of coming together as a community and discuss
our shared development infrastructure. For other ways to participate
see https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization

Keep Sourceware worry-free, friendly and independent by donating
https://sourceware.org/donate.html support our fiscal sponser SFC
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer and/or support OSUOSL for
hosting Free Software projects https://osuosl.org/donate/

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Re: Sourceware - Building Together, Fri 11, 15:00 UTC

[Zack Weinberg via Gdb]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026, at 7:58 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Tomorrow is the second Friday of the month, so it is time for the
> Sourceware Open Office again!

I recognize that this is a meeting about a whole bunch of things and not
just the argument presently taking place on libc-alpha, but I have to
ask that the *topic* of that argument be declared off-topic for this
meeting.  The glibc project is currently trying to dig out from a
catastrophic process failure and we really, really need everyone even
peripherally involved to agree to stick *exclusively* to libc-alpha when
discussing anything related to the question of whether glibc should move
any or all of its hosting off of sourceware.

Thanks for your consideration.
zw

Re: Sourceware - Building Together, Fri 11, 15:00 UTC

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Zack,

On Thu, 2026-09-10 at 17:45 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026, at 7:58 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Tomorrow is the second Friday of the month, so it is time for the
> > Sourceware Open Office again!
> 
> I recognize that this is a meeting about a whole bunch of things and not
> just the argument presently taking place on libc-alpha, but I have to
> ask that the *topic* of that argument be declared off-topic for this
> meeting.  The glibc project is currently trying to dig out from a
> catastrophic process failure and we really, really need everyone even
> peripherally involved to agree to stick *exclusively* to libc-alpha when
> discussing anything related to the question of whether glibc should move
> any or all of its hosting off of sourceware.

No worries. glibc does that every 9 months or so. We really have no
intention to discuss any of that. I really appreciate you trying to
resolve that issue. But it has been going on for so long that most
people just want to get back to work.

The monthly Sourceware Open Office meeting is for simple technical
coordination. In this case about setting up some buildbots (for GDB),
hooking up the patchwork CI/CD curator (and maybe some of the
buildbots). Investigate bugspray, a public-inbox bugzilla integrator. A
quick update on fundraising progress. And discussion of what people to
like hear about for the builders/CI talk at Cauldron since we are
working on those issues anyway. Also it is a great time to ask about
any infrastructure issues you might experience where it helps to have
direct insight into real time logs.

There is also no requirement to attend unless you really could use some
direct admin help.

So see you in #overseers on irc.libera.chat at date -d "Fri Sep 10
15:00 UTC 2026". Or not if you have better things to do with your time.

Cheers,

Mark