2025-06-09 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes #120
Description
Date
Monday, Month June 9th, 2025 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK
// Second Monday of every month
Attendees
| Fullname | Affiliation | GitHub Username |
|---|---|---|
| Péter Györök | KX | @gyorokpeter |
| Aaron Davies | Morgan Stanley | @adavies42 |
| Alvin Shih | Morgan Stanley | @alvin-c-shih |
| Ross Duffy | Morgan Stanley | @rdffy |
| Rian Ó Cuinneagáin | KX | @rianoc |
Meeting notices
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Agenda
- (5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
- Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
- Review Meeting Notices (see above)
- (5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes.
- (20 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
- 4.2 news?
- Kx package manager updates?
- Any other things of interest
- New Community edition of kdb is available. It is still a manual process to download and get your license file and run the installer so still not suitable to automate or use with open source repos CI/CD
- git labs has "git secrets" could be used for storing license
- KX's vscode extension is doing some pre processing of IPC message before sending them to a remote q process (removing comments from functions). TODO: raise with KX
- fun trick for multi line interactive process function definitions
getsv system"cat"` - With more AI models available for your favorite IDE's attendees were asked to try them out. Claude Sonnet being suggested as superior to the GPT models.
- Alvin threw copilot at Shakti to get some more readable code with explanations. Potential repo link to follow
- New Community edition of kdb is available. It is still a manual process to download and get your license file and run the installer so still not suitable to automate or use with open source repos CI/CD
- (20 min) Community building
- Previous meeting notes have some of the suggestions
- Making the kdb FINOS projects compatible with KX's future package manager to be tried out with ease.
- qclone demo?
- (10 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn.
Join Zoom Meeting
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- Passcode: 361990
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