cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml

[Robert Watson]

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