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