Re: [Valgrind-developers] joint Valgrind + gdb devroom at FOSDEM 2018: proposal

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

Hi guys,

On 09/19/2017 10:01 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
> I certainly have no objections :) But it would be good to also have one
> of the gdb hackers as contact. If only to better judge the talk
> proposals. Any volunteers?

I don't know whether there's still time, and whether you still need
this, but I'm fine with being a point of contact for GDB.

(I can't promise I'll attend or submit a talk at this point, however.)

> I would also mention we had a successful combined devroom in 2014:
> https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/valgrind/

I agree, and it was a lot of fun!

>> GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on
>> `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program
>> was doing at the moment it crashed.
>>
>> Valgrind and GDB is Open Source / Free Software, and is freely
>> available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
> 
> are ... version 2 and 3 (or later).  

Yes, and gdb is GPLv3 or later.  Better keep the licenses for
each project separate paragraphs, I guess.

> 
>> Relevant URLs:
>> Valgrind website: http://www.valgrind.org
>> GDB website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
>>
>> Timeslot:
>> Half day
> 
> If we make it a shared debugging tools devroom and both gdb and
> valgrind hackers submit talks then I would request a whole day.

Agreed.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves