2026-06-08 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

[rdffy]

Date

Monday, June 8th, 2026 - 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
Ross Duffy	Morgan Stanley	@rdffy

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
• (25 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
• (10 min) Community building
• (5 min) Brainstorming
• (5 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn

Minutes

A more admin focused meeting.

• There is a kdb-x trial ongoing in MS. Aaron raised an issue with wanting comma number notation with the kdb-x printf module that Péter mentions on a comment to this issue.
• Aaron updated the Add MAINTAINERS.md file #134 PR and that was merged post call.
• Ross to check with Karl about the repo admins. Not visible via the UI if you're not an admin but you can curl the infor out of github.
  AI quick recap summary:
  The meeting focused on updates regarding the KDBX trial implementation at Morgan Stanley and ongoing maintenance activities for the FINOS project. Aaron Davies discussed plans to create KDBX versions of existing FINOS modules, proposing to add a KDBX directory at the top level of the codebase parallel to the existing q directory. The team reviewed updates to the maintainers file, with Aaron Davies filling in known contributor names and Ross Duffy identifying punx120 as a contributor who had made studio commits in 2022. Rian provided updates on the KDBX migration from PyKX, explaining that they made libraries and threads opt-in rather than opt-out for faster defaults, and mentioned upcoming improvements to make KDB modules operate more like Python classes. The conversation ended with discussions about repository administration permissions and the status of incorporating changes from a KDB+ Studio fork maintained by an external contributor who was willing to share code but not become an official maintainer.

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[gyorokpeter]

Péter Györök / KX

[adavies42]

Aaron Davies / Morgan Stanley

[rdffy]

Ross Duffy / Morgan Stanley

[gyorokpeter]

thousand separator in printf: it's not in ANSI C99 so not in scope, but feel free to submit a feature request