topic suggestion: improving debugging tools

Posted Mar 27, 2009 19:28 UTC (Fri) by bauermann (subscriber, #37575)
Parent article: 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference Call For Topics

GDB development was slow for some time, but has been catching up in the last few years (Tom Tromey says GDB is going through a Renaissance). The GDB 7.0 release will ship some exciting features (like Python scripting support, pretty-printing, non-stop multithread debugging and others). I believe we now have the manpower to modernize GDB even more, in order to help Linux developers.

Hence, we could have a miniconf to bring GDB developers and users together to brainstorm on what we should work next: what are GDB's biggest weaknesses, and what would be killer features to have, for instance.

The people to call are a subset of (or even the whole of) the current active GDB developers and maintainers: Daniel Jacobowitz, Joel Brobecker, Pedro Alves, Tom Tromey, Hui Zhu, Thiago Bauermann (yours truly), Doug Evans, Pierre Muller (sorry if I forgot someone).

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topic suggestion: improving debugging tools

Posted Mar 27, 2009 21:22 UTC (Fri) by bauermann (subscriber, #37575) [Link]

Forgot to mention the expected deliverables:

- a roadmap for 2009 which is more aligned to developer needs
- Python API improvements based on ideas and needs of developers
- general usability improvements from feedback in the miniconf

Sorry if I don't have anything more specific. Like I said, the way I see it, the miniconf would be a "developers meets users" kind of thing.

Also it would be nice to have some experts who work on other debug-related tools, or even GCC debuginfo, like Roland McGrath, Alexandre Oliva and Michael Matz.