A few weeks back Sourceware joined the Software Freedom Conservancy. This week Sourceware joins the fediverse at @sourceware@fosstodon.org. The account will be used for Sourceware announcements, notices about downtime and temporary issues with our network. Sourceware is run by volunteers who can be contacted on the public overseers@sourceware.org mailinglist [inbox]. Or you can file an […]
After various discussions and lots of positive feedback Software Freedom Conservancy and Sourceware proudly announce that Sourceware today joins SFC as a member project! For almost 25 years Sourceware has been the long-time home of various core toolchain project communities. Projects like Cygwin, a UNIX API for Win32 systems, the GNU Toolchain, including GCC, the […]
We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.21.0, available from https://valgrind.org/downloads/current.html. Summary of new features valgrind now provides gdb python commands. These GDB front end commands provide a better integration in the GDB command line interface, so as to use for example GDB auto-completion, command specific help, searching for a command […]
Please donate to the Software Freedom Conservancy this year. Software Freedom Conservancy has been growing and is able to take on the work it does thanks to the incredible support of individuals who care about an organization who stands up for the equitable, ethical and end user focused technologies. They have been a great partner […]
The FSF was nice enough to host a video chat on Sourceware infrastructure – A presentation and community Q&A. Which was basically the BoF we had wanted to give about Sourceware Infrastructure at the Cauldron. Extended with some discussion on recent developments, Sourceware as Conservancy member project and collaboration with the FSF tech-team. It was […]
We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.20.0, available from http://valgrind.org/downloads/current.html. This is mostly a bug fix release to make sure valgrind works well against the latest gcc, glibc and linux kernel, but also contains a lot of work to make valgrind work better on FreeBSD. Plus a couple of new […]
Cauldron was fun, heard so many interesting talks, met so many fun people, had great conversations. I also had a BoF about all the great infrastructure work we have been adding to Sourceware over that last year and had wanted to discuss how the different project hosted on Sourceware wanted to use it to improve […]
Last month the Sourceware overseers started a discussion with the projects hosted on Sourceware and the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) to become a Conservancy member project (which means Conservancy would become the fiscal sponsor of Sourceware). After many positive responses the SFC’s Evaluations Committee has voted to accept Sourceware.
Make sure to read Nicholas Nethercote’s Twenty years of Valgrind to learn about the early days, Valgrind “skins”, the influence Valgrind had on raising the bar when it comes to correctness for C and C++ programs, and why a hacker on the Rust programming language still uses Valgrind.
Making email/git based workflow more fun, secure and productive by automating contribution tracking and testing across different distros and architectures. What is Sourceware? Sourceware, https://sourceware.org/, is community run infrastructure, mailinglists, git, bug trackers, wikis, etc. hosted in the Red Hat Open Source Community Infrastructure Community Cage together with servers from e.g. Ceph, CentOS, Fedora and […]