[lldb-dev] A change of seasons

[Reid Kleckner]

Thanks for your work, Todd! I hope we'll see more down the road. :)

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Todd Fiala <tfiala at google.com> 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
> <https://github.com/tfiala/lldb/tree/dev-thread-state-coordinator> 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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