Notes on Q&A session
80 attendees
Question about suitability of GNU Cauldron being at LPC
- Nathan Sidwell feels like Cauldron, but no opportunity to talk to other LPC participants
- Carlos O'Donell supports this view
- Co-locate, but not concurrent
- Catherine Moore would there be saving
- probably not, due to being larger
- Jeremy Bennett noted that Cauldron being at a weekend helps some participants
- Question about the cost
- should we have a fee
- Peter Bergner question of location
- cauldron is usually in Europe
- LPC is usually in North America
Question: what is the GNU Toolchain Fund?
- to direct funds to specific groups
- Carlos O'Donell, David Edelsohn, Joel Brobecker are the trustees
- supported by individual donations and share of large donation ($90k) to FSF
- funded students for travel
- not for paying developers/maintainers
- 4 years old
- nothing to do with GNU Tools Cauldron funding
Question: should all version numbers be aligned?
- if we do this, then would need to synchronize releases
Cygnus used to do this - the unified source tree. CodeSourcery still do this
- GDB will change its numbering scheme (not number) to match GCC
- Next major release will be 10 - coincidence it matches, but GDB has 6-month release cadence
- should we do calendar based numbering?
- precedence Eclipse unified releases
- Mark Wielaard noted that having releases in sync would be nice