[lldb-dev] A change of seasons

[Matthew Gardiner]

Good luck and thanks for all your help!
Matt

On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 14:00 -0700, Todd Fiala wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> I wanted to let you know that today is my last day at Google.  I'll be
> starting to work at Apple next week.  I will continue to keep my eye
> on Linux LLDB and the Android LLGS effort as the Linux LLDB
> shepherding transitions over, but whatever time I put in will become
> all after-work activity at that point and will be just a sliver of
> what I have done through Google this past year.
> 
> 
> I wanted to take a moment to give you a few updates:
> 
> 
> Who Will Be Watching Over LLDB Linux/Android?
> 
> 
> I have been joined by a number of people both within Google and on the
> contractor side starting back in June.  You've met some of them
> already - Shawn Best and Alex Pepper (both Blue Shift Inc. - BSI).
> 
> 
> There are several more you may see in the near future:
> 
> 
> * Vince Harron (Google - my manager)
> * Oleksiy Vyalov (Google - new to LLDB)
> * Siva Reddy (Google - new to LLDB, previous debugger experience)
> * John Brooks (BSI)
> * Doug Snyder (BSI)
> * Andy Chien (BSI)
> * Marty Chinn (BSI)
> * Troy Sheets (BSI)
> 
> 
> They've been helping me behind the scenes (BSI) or are in the process
> of ramping up now (Google Android folks).  They will be driving the
> continuity behind my work.  Which leads to the next update.
> 
> 
> LLGS - where is that at?
> 
> 
> LLGS for x86_64 and x86 Linux is not ready for official thumbs up just
> yet.  The criteria for that success metric is having the "llgs
> local-process mode" passing the local LLDB test suite at or better
> than the existing local ProcessMonitor/ProcessLinux local LLDB test
> suite.
> 
> 
> LLGS is available in top-of-tree llvm.org, but there are a number of
> changes in the dev-thread-state-coordinator branch on my github
> account.  I was hoping to squeeze that in today but, with the number
> of failing tests upstream now being reported, it is clear there are a
> number of fixes that have to happen upstream before I'd be comfortable
> getting the branch upstreamed.  I'll be communicating with the
> Google/BSI guys once I figure out how much time I am able to muster up
> over the next couple weeks to see if we can get that integrated.  If
> it's not me, it'll be one of the other Google Android team getting it
> tested, reviewed and upstreamed.
> 
> 
> The plan of record after that is to get llgs running on an x86_64
> Android setup built with the NDK to work out the Androidisms, then fan
> out to the other architectures (arm64/arm32, x86-32 bit, mips 64/32).
> 
> 
> While this is a goodbye of sorts, I expect you may see me pop up in
> the LLVM community in a different context sometime in the future.
> 
> 
> I've truly enjoyed my time at Google interacting with the LLVM
> community as a whole, and the great, friendly people contributing to
> LLDB in particular.  Thanks for making it such a great community!
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Todd Fiala
> 
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