2025-08-11 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

[rdffy]

Date

Monday, Month 11, 2025 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK

// Second Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname	Affiliation	GitHub Username
Aaron Davies	Morgan Stanley	@adavies42
Péter Györök	KX	@gyorokpeter
Ross Duffy	Morgan Stanley	@rdffy
Karl Moll	FINOS	@karlmoll

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
• (5 min) FINOS kdb+ Project charter refresh
  • kdb-x community addition for CI/CD usage
    • ongoing discussion with FINOS legal
    • Péter's personal repo using it in CI/CD git actions https://github.com/gyorokpeter/qbinparse/actions/runs/16866946729/job/47775144512
    • "using a proprietary binary to run our unit tests"
• (20 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
  • Péter demoed the new module loader in kdb-x
    • interested parties should request early access from KX
    • things raised: loading a module built for multiple os', nested namespacing in the module.
  • with unit tests in mind. The inverse of -q quiet mode would be useful, forcing q banner.
• (10 min) Community building
• (5 min) Brainstorming
• (5 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn
  • two PRs from Aaron were reviewed
    • check things are actually namespaces #122
    • make logging controllable #123

Join Zoom Meeting

• https://zoom.us/j/94523415326?pwd=NkJDaUtUUlZTcHVwcUJHdG0yRFJUdz09
• Meeting ID: 945 2341 5326
• Passcode: 361990
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[adavies42]

Aaron Davies/Morgan Stanley

[gyorokpeter]

Péter Györök / KX

[rdffy]

Ross Duffy / Morgan Stanley

[karlmoll]

Karl Moll / FINOS

[rdffy]

example kdb CI/DC: https://github.com/gyorokpeter/qbinparse/actions/runs/16866946729/job/47775144512

[gyorokpeter]

@karlmoll In addition to mentioning "running a proprietary binary for testing only", I would also add that the entire project has an audience who has access to the software already, and anyone without access to the software cannot benefit from it, so there is no risk of "contamination" from running the proprietary binary.