From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 23 18:44:18 2008 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 CF7FF106566B; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:44:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199D28FC16; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:44:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl22-218.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.149.218]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m2NIPIpX021058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:25:24 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2NIPFU1001854; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:25:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2NIPC8h001853; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:25:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Robert Watson References: <200803212018.m2LKIDpD046926@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080323163749.63ff9587@deskjail> <20080323161123.S10013@fledge.watson.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:25:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080323161123.S10013@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:11:44 +0000 (GMT)") Message-ID: <87r6e1l2lz.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m2NIPIpX021058 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.895, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.50, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Alexander Leidinger , doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, jb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@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: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:44:18 -0000 On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:11:44 +0000 (GMT), Robert Watson wrote: >On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>Quoting Robert Watson (Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:18:13 +0000 (UTC)): >>> rwatson 2008-03-21 20:18:13 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD doc repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> en/projects/ideas ideas.xml >>> Log: >>> Add two specific DTrace tasks that might be worked on as part of Summer >>> of Code. >>> >>> Submitted by: jb >> >> It may be beneficial to explain in a short sentence what the DTrace >> toolkit is. This would help people without much knowledge about DTrace >> to make a decision if an entry is interesting for them or (I played a >> little bit around with DTrace on Solaris, and I don't know what this >> toolkit is, I would have to look it up myself). > > Yeah, I agree -- if John sends me a sentence I'd be happy to add it for him. The DTrace Toolkit is a collection of useful DTrace scripts, that implement various task based aggregation and analysis tools on top of the core DTrace functionality (i.e. filesystem statistics, memory statistics, process-name based tracing, etc.) The above is probably ok as the `one sentence' description, but let's wait for John to see if he has a better one :)