From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 12 11:32:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7985A106566B; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5336D8FC19; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D21246B06; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20090312113812.179151uxuziye0w0@webmail.leidinger.net> Message-ID: References: <200903120659.n2C6xas2031642@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090312113812.179151uxuziye0w0@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Brooks Davis , cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:32:33 -0000 On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Tag a few more projects as being part of SoC 2008. Some of these should >> probably be removed as complete, but I'm not sure what their current >> status is. >> >> Remove the DTrace Toolkit port task as it's now at sysutils/DTraceToolkit. > > Do you know if the necessary changes for FreeBSD are integrated into the > vendor source? I ask this because there are no port specific changes and if > it isn't integrated, we have the plain Solaris Dtrace Toolkit. Additionally > from the commit log: ---snip--- It's worth noting that not all of these > scripts will work. They are either too Solaris specific or the probes have > not yet been implemented. As more probes are implemented more scripts will > work. ---snip--- So I see value in having someone looking at this (could be > by removing stuff which are too specific, or by implementing the missing > probes). I think there could be a useful project to be done on fleshing out kernel SDT providers, but that we need to come up with a more specific description if we want it to be useful for GSoC. We also need to identify a potential mentor for the project who can field questions during the proposal process, potentially mentor the project, and so on. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge