Re: GDB BoF Agenda for GNU Cauldron 2022?

Luis Machado via Gdb
2022-09-13T10:48:53Z

On 9/12/22 17:24, Luis Machado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 9/12/22 16:43, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Once again, we'll have a gdb BoF session in the Cauldron this year:
>>
>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2022#cauldron2022talks.the_gdb_bof
>>
>> As in previous years, the intention is to discuss whatever gdb-related topics people feel like
>> needs discussing, hence no agenda listed in the schedule (I didn't have a list of topics in mind
>> when I proposed the slot).  As before, I intend to collect topics of interest at the start of the
>> session, and then try to cover them all.  That seems to have worked OK in the past.
>>
>> However, if anyone has topics they already know they'd like to see brought up, please feel
>> free to let me know in advance.
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pedro Alves
>
> One topic GDB developers might be interested in (but feel free to skip it otherwise), is patch reviewing.
>
> - Timing
>
> Everyone's busy schedules aside, is there a way to improve the time it takes for patches to get reviewed? Do we need to seek
> (to appoint) more maintainers?
>
> - Tracking
>
> Is there a better patch-tracking system so contributions don't get forgotten (better than pinging patches once a week).
>
> It would be nice to have a clear list of contributions waiting to be reviewed, as opposed to having to go through mailing
> list entries.
>
> - Pre-commit testing
>
> Some sort of infrastructure that just build-tests the patch/series to hopefully speed-up reviewing. Possibly using our current
> sourceware buildbot infrastructure?
>
> Regards,
> Luis

Sorry, remembered another one:

- Discuss adopting an auto-formatting tool for source code in the future (clang-format?), so developers/reviewers
don't need to spend time spotting such things. The experience with python black has been nice.