Notes taken at the GNU tools Q&A session 80 attendees Question about suitability of GNU Cauldron being at LPC * Nathan Sidwell feels like Cauldron, but no opportunity to talk to other LPC participants * Carlos O'Donell supports this view * Co-locate, but not concurrent * Catherine Moore would there be saving * probably not, due to being larger * Jeremy Bennett noted that Cauldron being at a weekend helps some participants * Question about the cost * should we have a fee * Peter Bergner question of location * cauldron is usually in Europe * LPC is usually in North America Question: what is the GNU Toolchain Fund? * to direct funds to specific groups * Carlos O'Donell, David Edelsohn, Joel Brobecker are the trustees * supported by individual donations and share of large donation ($90k) to FSF * funded students for travel * not for paying developers/maintainers * 4 years old * nothing to do with GNU Tools Cauldron funding Question: should all version numbers be aligned? * if we do this, then would need to synchronize releases * Cygnus used to do this - the unified source tree. CodeSourcery still do this * GDB will change its numbering scheme (not number) to match GCC * Next major release will be 10 - coincidence it matches, but GDB has 6-month release cadence * should we do calendar based numbering? * precedence Eclipse unified releases * Mark Wielaard noted that having releases in sync would be nice