GDB BoF notes - GNU Cauldron 2023

[Simon Marchi]

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