Hackfest1503

= Hackfest March 2015 at Ettus Research =

Dates: March 30 - April 3, 2015

We are planning on releasing 3.7.7 of GNU Radio shortly after the Hackfest, which will be the first release with VOLK broken out as a separate library. The basic plan:


 * March 30: Make cut over to VOLK as a submodule on master
 * April 6: code freeze for 3.7.7
 * April 13: v3.7.7 release date

Topics

 * VOLK: test test test
 * Seed SO with questions (https://gist.github.com/n-west/6c85cd37f69079fb7cb8)
 * Android support
 * Fix libusb and libuhd permissions problems
 * Roll-out plan
 * Packet Modems
 * Review current progress
 * Plan rework for 3.8
 * PyBOMBS and CGRAN
 * Provide proper installation structure for PyBOMBS
 * Wrap CGRAN into a package for local installs to track own PyBOMBS recipes
 * Performance Monitor
 * Finish perf tools and gr-perf-monitorx toggles
 * Improve Embedded Development Documentation
 * QtGui
 * Remove PyQwt requirement
 * Add burst plotting sup
 * Improving plot aesthetics
 * GNU Radio Schedule
 * Improving stream back-pressure latency
 * Reduced buffer sizes
 * CoProc support
 * Improving standard benchmarks
 * Channel Models
 * Validating, accelerating and adding to available models