I'd be interested in helping out. I'm not an official Debian developer, but I've done a fair amount of packaging, am pretty skilled in C++, have a strong background in embedded work and presentations, and don't mind being That Guy when necessary.
No interest in showing up unannounced or solo, though. Ideas? On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 10:05 AM Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > This came up on debian-devel, and seems like a very cross-distro > thing, albeit not ARM-specific, so reposting here. Anyone here able to > explain/interested in explaining distro-thinking to the C++ standards > people (in San Diego)? > > ----- Forwarded message from Jussi Pakkanen <jpakk...@gmail.com> ----- > > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 19:56:29 +0300 > From: Jussi Pakkanen <jpakk...@gmail.com> > To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Debian packaging, dependency management and the C++ standards > meeting > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=4.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, > DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VERIFIED,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE > autolearn=no > autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 > List-Id: <debian-devel.lists.debian.org> > > Hi > > Last week I was at CppCon, which is the biggest C++ developers' > conference in the world. There were a lot of talks about dependencies, > packaging and deployment and other such things related to Debian. A > representative snippet can be seen in this video starting at 1:13:56: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjdCxXdjaSA > > The tl/dr version is that people running the C++ standardisation work > do not really have knowledge about the way Debian does things and > because of this might not take relevant things into consideration. As > an example there is a rising trend of "discard ABI stability, static > link everything and recompile the world on every change" vibe going on > similar to most new system programming languages. This would make > things difficult for Debian due to obvious reasons. > > They specifically mention that there is a standardisation meeting next > month (in San Diego?) and that if people from Debian and other groups > underrepresented in the C++ standardisation process were to attend, > they would like to talk to them to understand their requirements. This > specific thing is mentioned in the video at 1:17, the person in the > white shirt answering the question is Titus Winters, Google's C++ lead > (of some sort, don't know the specifics) and he is a big advocate of > static linking everything. > > I can't attend due to geographical reasons but would there be someone > who could and would be interested? It would probably be beneficial to > have Debian people there to tell about those specific requirements, > because it seems like most people on the standardisation committee do > not really have a good grasp on what they are. In fact it might make > sense to send distro people in general, since the requirements are > very similar for Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE et al. If you have contacts in > those organisations who would be interested in this issue feel free to > send them links to this email thread. I know Red Hat at least has sent > people to the meeting in the past but on the language/stdlib side, not > for packaging (that I know of at least). > > An alternative, or parallel, approach could be to write a paper > outlining the issues and submitting it to the standard body. This does > require someone to be physically at the meeting and to present the > paper and its conclusions to the participants and be ready to answer > questions. (I have never actually done this myself, so the above > description might have flaws.) Having a position paper co-signed by > several different distros could be beneficial in making our views > heard. > > The downside is that the deadline for submitting papers is fairly > short, I think something like 1.5 weeks so this would need to move > fairly quickly. > > Thanks, > (not subscribed to the list so please cc) > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > _______________________________________________ > cross-distro mailing list > cross-distro@lists.linaro.org > https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro > -- Bill Gatliff Embedded Linux training and consulting b...@billgatliff.com (309) 453-3421
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