Re: [Announce] LPC 2018: Testing and Fuzzing Microconference

From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 11:48:02 EST


On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:23 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:02:51 +0200
> Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Sasha and I are pleased to announce the Testing and Fuzzing track at
> > > LPC [ 1 ]. We are planning to continue the discussions from last
> > > year's microconference [2]. Many discussions from the Automated
> > > Testing Summit [3] will also continue, and a final agenda will come up
> > > only soon after that.
> > >
> > > Suggested Topics
> > >
> > > - Syzbot/syzkaller
> > > - ATS
> > > - Distro/stable testing
> > > - kernelci
> > > - kernelci auto bisection
> > > - Unit testing framework
> > >
> > > We look forward to other interesting topics for this microconference
> > > as a reply to this email.
> >
> > Hi Dhaval and Sasha,
> >
> > My syzbot talk wasn't accepted to main track, so I would like to do
> > more or less full-fledged talk on the microconf. Is it possible?
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Note, microconfs are not for full-fledged talks. They are to be
> discussion focused. You can have a 5-10 minute presentation that leads
> up to discussion of future work, but we like to refrain from any talks
> about what was done if there's nothing to go forward with.

Dmitiry,

Can you clarify the scope of what you want to discuss during the
microconference? Further to what Steven said, we don't want
presentations (So 3, maybe 4 slides). We want discussions about future
work.

Thanks!
Dhaval