Proposed SIG-Core meeting agenda - 15/OCT/2021 0900PT/1600GMT

[amzn-pratikpa]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time: : 15/OCT/2021, 0900 PT/1600 GMT
• Location: Discord SIG-Core Voice Room
• Moderator: @amzn-pratikpa
• Note Taker Volunteers welcome!

The SIG-Core Meetings repo contains the history past calls, including a link to the agenda, recording, notes, and resources.

Meeting Agenda

• Split SIG-Core into more SIG's (@ppinfel)
• Add the Guideline Support Library to AzCore (@hultonha)
• Nomination of @burelc-amzn to be a maintainer (@amzn-pratikpa)
• Removal of PhysXSamples gem. (@moraaar)

Please comment on this for anything you would like added to the agenda

[ppinfel]

are we gonna split up sig-core into more sigs

[hultonha]

I would be interested to know if there's interest in adding the Guideline Support Library (GSL) https://github.com/microsoft/GSL to AzCore (potentially AzFramework).

The GSL has some incredibly useful types (e.g. gsl::span, coming in std:: in C++20). Adopting it would help us conform to the C++ Core Guidelines that build on top of this library (https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines). There's some useful techniques gaining wider use such as using zstring to explicitly refer to a null terminated string (as opposed to const char* that could refer to a single character or char array).

The library is designed to encourage safe and secure use of C++ adopting the zero-overhead mindset we've come to expect from C++ libraries.

This would likely need to be an RFC before it can be adopted but I'd be interested to take the temperature of the room to see if there's interest or not before spending more time on it.

[amzn-pratikpa]

I would be interested to know if there's interest in adding the Guideline Support Library (GSL) https://github.com/microsoft/GSL to AzCore (potentially AzFramework).

The GSL has some incredibly useful types (e.g. gsl::span, coming in std:: in C++20). Adopting it would help us conform to the C++ Core Guidelines that build on top of this library (https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines). There's some useful techniques gaining wider use such as using zstring to explicitly refer to a null terminated string (as opposed to const char* that could refer to a single character or char array).

The library is designed to encourage safe and secure use of C++ adopting the zero-overhead mindset we've come to expect from C++ libraries.

This would likely need to be an RFC before it can be adopted but I'd be interested to take the temperature of the room to see if there's interest or not before spending more time on it.

Added to the agenda

[amzn-pratikpa]

are we gonna split up sig-core into more sigs

Added to the agenda

[moraaar]

I'd like to discuss the removal of PhysXSamples gem.

[amzn-pratikpa]

I'd like to discuss the removal of PhysXSamples gem.

Added to the agenda