Re: Proposing GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 glibc BoF.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 07/04/2017 11:53 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/04/2017 11:08 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 04 July 2017 08:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> I'm going to propose a glibc BoF for GNU Tools Cauldron 2017.
>>>>
>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2017
>>>>
>>>> As usual I'll run the BoF along with anyone else who wants to help.
>>>>
>>>> The focus will be on discussing community issues face-to-face (for
>>>> those who find this beneficial) and trying to identify priorities or
>>>> strategies to handle work that we need to do.
>>>>
>>>> Identifying work that needs doing and in what priority is often
>>>> difficult in email, and sometimes a face-to-face discussion moves
>>>> things forward quickly.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone already proposed a BoF, please tell me :-)
>>>
>>> I only warned the admins that you'll be doing that :)
>>>
>>> Other than that I have added a talk on tunables to discuss what we want
>>> to do with it next.  If there are topics that may need deeper
>>> discussion, we should propose them as separate BoF/talks.  Buildbots for
>>> example, or benchmarking.
>>>
>>> Or at the minimum, have two glibc BoF sessions; we always run over, so
>>> I'm pretty sure we will fill both slots :)
>>
>> I'm going to suggest two slots but on distinct days. And I'll split up
>> the topics between the slots, that way you can have a chance at going to
>> one or the other.
>>
>> What about splitting the BoF's into:
> 
> Splitting it into 2 sounds like a good idea to me .
> 
>>
>> (1) Runtime Issues:
>> - dlopen vs TLS
>> - ...
>>
>> (2) Infrastructure Issues:
>> - Build bots
>> - Test suite
>> - Benchmarking
>> - ...
> 
> 
> ABI and Vendor branches ?

Sound good to me. I'll add it.

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Cheers,
Carlos.