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Developer's Call, December 15, 2011

Annotated agenda

Time: 2200 UTC, 6 PM EST, 3 PM PST, etc.
SIP call: sip:
IRC channel: #gnuradio on Freenode

Agenda items:
  • Volk alignment issues - checking
    • What's left before merging gr-blocks into master?
  • Roadmap for v 3.6
  • Bugs, features, and issues to close or to be closed
  • Conference 2012 preliminary discussion

IRC Log:

<mait> voip-gr: 51 is mait
<voip-gr> mait is now associated with SIP/108.18.8.132-00000051.
<Crofton|work> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/internet-suitcase-dc/
<trondeau> Discuss volk alignment and merge gr-blocks.
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:54653-0000004e) has left the conference.
<Crofton|work> quitter
<guruofquality> every 15 mins
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:17344-00000052) has joined the conference.
<trondeau> jblum/gr-basic looks good. Should be ready to merge.
<trondeau> We need to fix the alignment issue instead of using output_mutliple. Can fix this later.
<voip-gr> <unknown> (SIP/84.248.66.131-00000053) has joined the conference.
<lindi-> voip-gr: 53 is lindi-
<voip-gr> lindi- is now associated with SIP/84.248.66.131-00000053.
<lindi-> did you just finish? can't hear a thing
<trondeau> talking about some Volk test issues failing on different machines/archs. ORC had some issues -- debian unstable seems to work fine.
<trondeau> lindi-, still talking.
<mait> Debian squeeze has liborc 0.4.6
<lindi-> ok, too tired to start debugging sip :(
<trondeau> looking at resolved/fixed bugs to see about closing them.
<mait> Debian unstable has liborc 0.4.16
<trondeau> issue #467
<trondeau> Josh fixed, merged to master. Closing.
<lindi-> re orc I have one patch which I didn't send yet:  http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/gnuradio/0001-cmake-require-liborc-0.4.9-since-we-need-.floatparam.patch
<trondeau> issue #466
<lindi-> without this you get build failures on e.g. ubuntu lucid.
<Crofton|work> lindi-, you on the call?
<Crofton|work> ah, Isee
<lindi-> Crofton|work: yes but doesn't seem to be working
<Crofton|work> sorry bout your sip issue
<trondeau> Minor issues; fixed and merged. Closing
<trondeau> Still open. Need to look at how history deals with this.
<trondeau> That was for issue #462.
<lindi-> Crofton|work: no problem. I usually use mumble for conference calls
<lindi-> Crofton|work: works bit more reliably since there's only one client and only one tcp connection
<trondeau> issue #460. Fixed in master.
<lindi-> I do have tcpdump of this so maybe I can decode your conversations later with scapy
<trondeau> issue #443: fll buffering.
<trondeau> I need to focus on this soon.
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:17344-00000052) has left the conference.
<trondeau> May want to reintroduce the old way (costas -> mpsk_receiver) until we fix this.
<Crofton|work> 15 minutes is up
<HokieTux> argh
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:18061-00000054) has joined the conference.
<trondeau> issue #446. Stuck in swig file to resolve namespace issues. Merged. Closing.
<trondeau> issue #373. aligned malloc in mingw
<trondeau> fixed a long time ago. Just closing it out.
<trondeau> issue 203: fixed with update to UHD. closing.
<trondeau> issue #151: fixed in cmake with shebanging.
<trondeau> closing
<trondeau> Try to make it a (loosely enforced) policy to write 2.7 Python code that is correctly translatable to Python 3.0. Makes the future conversion easier.
<trondeau> conference 2012
<trondeau> Maybe in Philly again next year or possibly with TAPR/ARRL DCC in Atlanta. Mid September most likely.
<trondeau> Last issue is v3.6
<jcorgan> sorry, have to take a customer call right now
<trondeau> Right now, gr-blocks, Python blocks
<voip-gr> <unknown> (IAX2/diamondcard-7633) has left the conference.
<trondeau> they will go into 3.5.x
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:18061-00000054) has left the conference.
<trondeau> discussing swig 2.0 issues.
<trondeau> We haven't made any effort to support 2.0, so I'm not surprised it's not working.
<trondeau> Or at least that there are issues.
<voip-gr> Josh Blum (SIP/157.22.28.13:50595-00000055) has joined the conference.
<trondeau> Do we focus on getting 2.0 to work?
<voip-gr> <unknown> (SIP/iptel.org-00000056) has joined the conference.
<Crofton|work> rofl
<trondeau> Wait until ubuntu/fedora make the move to make swig the official package.
<voip-gr> <unknown> (SIP/iptel.org-00000056) has left the conference.
<trondeau> need to have cmake do a swig version check (swig -version >= 1.3.31).
<mait> Debian stable has swig 1.3.40
<mait> Debian unstable standard swig is 2.0
<trondeau> maint, that shouldn't be a problem right now. When is unstable going stable? (that is, how long do we have?)
<mait> I don't know. But I am trying to build for unstable now.
<voip-gr> Andrew Davis (SIP/98.223.35.49-00000057) has joined the conference.
<trondeau> 3.6 roadmap: remove autotools (already been done on next).
<trondeau> support for inplace blocks.
<trondeau> new/improved message passing infrastructure.
<trondeau> bye bye