#linuxcnc-devel Logs

May 29 2019

09:36 AM linuxcnc-build: build #5919 of 1202.rip-lucid-amd64 is complete: Failure [4failed garbage-collect git repo] Build details are at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/1202.rip-lucid-amd64/builds/5919 blamelist: andypugh <andy@bodgesoc.org>
09:39 AM skunkworks: garbage-collect?
10:17 AM linuxcnc-build: build #5941 of 0000.checkin is complete: Failure [4failed] Build details are at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/0000.checkin/builds/5941 blamelist: andypugh <andy@bodgesoc.org>
10:45 AM linuxcnc-build: build #5920 of 1202.rip-lucid-amd64 is complete: Failure [4failed garbage-collect git repo] Build details are at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/1202.rip-lucid-amd64/builds/5920 blamelist: Dewey Garrett <dgarrett@panix.com>
11:26 AM linuxcnc-build: build #5942 of 0000.checkin is complete: Failure [4failed] Build details are at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/0000.checkin/builds/5942 blamelist: Dewey Garrett <dgarrett@panix.com>
06:40 PM jthornton: mozmck: you around?
06:40 PM mozmck: yep
07:00 PM andypugh: Hmm, so no actual converstation then?
07:01 PM jthornton: taking about chickens lol
07:02 PM mozmck: hi andypugh
07:02 PM jthornton: mozmck: do we just need to create a 2.8 branch and push or is there more involved?
07:03 PM mozmck: I think that's all for starters. I was thinking of making a last call on the dev mailing list - do you think that's needed?
07:03 PM jthornton: I don't think so, it's been so long
07:03 PM andypugh: We might want to do an upstream merge in case there is stuff in 2.7 that needs to propogate up. I don’t know how straightforward that would be.
07:04 PM andypugh: I have been meaining to do a test run for about a week
07:04 PM mozmck: maybe so, but it won't hurt to email and state our plans I guess.
07:04 PM andypugh: Quite.
07:04 PM mozmck: andypugh: I tried doing that and there were conflicts with some of the TP bugfixes
07:04 PM andypugh: And it gives folk a chance to argue for stuff that they think absolutely positively must go in
07:05 PM jthornton: Tom_L: you around?
07:05 PM mozmck: andypugh: yes, that was my thought.
07:05 PM andypugh: I wonder if Rob can help resolve those conflicts?
07:05 PM mozmck: he said on the list he was planning to do that last week I think.
07:06 PM mozmck: 5-21
07:07 PM andypugh: Maybe a good chance to become proficient in a diff tool
07:12 PM mozmck: I just noticed that Rob also voted for "a 2.8 release with current features (+bugfixes), and re-open master for new features."
07:14 PM andypugh: I think that has to be the way to go.
07:15 PM andypugh: Whether reverse-run and other cool stuff can go in as a 2.8.1 I am not sure, but there is no reason that 2.9 can’t follow close on the heels of 2.8
07:15 PM mozmck: agreed.
07:15 PM andypugh: It isn’t _meant_ to take 5 years.
07:17 PM mozmck: Several have suggested a formal release schedule. I wonder how feasible that is? Seems like the main problem has been manpower?
07:18 PM mozmck: I would think Rob should have push access to linuxcnc github. Looks like only project owner can do that though. cradek? seb_kuzminsky?
07:28 PM andypugh: seb seems to be the keeper of the ssh keys for linuxcnc.org
07:28 PM andypugh: But I think any of the linuxcnc admisn can give push access.
07:29 PM andypugh: Looks like seb / cradek / jepler : https://github.com/orgs/LinuxCNC/people?utf8=✓&query=+role%3Aowner
07:46 PM mozmck: yep
07:53 PM andypugh: I just tried the merge. Most of the conflicts were my fault (including a typo fix today :-)
07:54 PM andypugh: I think I have a clean merge of 2.7 into 2.8 now, but I am doing a test build and runtests to be sure
08:03 PM Tom_L: jthornton?
08:13 PM andypugh: Hmm, lots of test fails for me here. But I suspect that is a consequence of running on a VM with no actual realtime.
08:28 PM mozmck_m: Tom_L, jthornton said you make an arm programmer?
08:30 PM Tom_L: no it's for avr
08:31 PM Tom_L: i believe arm is jtag
08:31 PM mozmck_m: I see
08:31 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/boards/USBTiny_Mkii/USBTiny_Mkii_index.php
08:31 PM mozmck_m: Yes, but some have isp.
08:32 PM Tom_L: if avrdude has support for them it might work but i've only tested it on avr
08:32 PM Tom_L: i have my doubts
08:32 PM mozmck_m: I have used a number of the cortex-m chips from NXP
08:33 PM Tom_L: i've never gotten into arm
08:33 PM Tom_L: i'm not making them anymore but have a few leftover
08:35 PM andypugh: I need to sleep now, but I have the upstream merge sorted out, I just need to transfer it to a machine that actually runs realtime.
08:36 PM andypugh: ONce I have tested it there (tomorrow) I will do the push
08:36 PM mozmck_lp: andypugh: I can test on a preempt-rt machine - do you have the merge pushed somewhere?
08:38 PM mozmck_lp: Tom_L: I like the arm chips. Only used AVR32 on one little project. I used a number of Microchip PIC chips though
08:39 PM Tom_L: i started with pic and switched to avr
08:39 PM Tom_L: had picbasic and some c compiler for them
08:40 PM mozmck_lp: Yeah, I used picbasic a little and then sourceboost C
08:41 PM mozmck_lp: now it's all arm-gcc
08:41 PM Tom_L: arm are cheap
08:42 PM Tom_L: more register setup on them i'm told
08:42 PM mozmck_lp: yes, and powerful.
08:42 PM mozmck_lp: I'm not sure if there's more than some of the PIC chips.