status of ufsj and gjournal

[Eric Anderson]

Soeren Straarup wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Soeren Straarup wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/9/05, Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> db at nipsi.de wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>>> I wonder whats the status of those summer of code projects.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From gjournal we heard that it has been completed but then 
>>>>>>>> nothing happens, any
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> further information about this?
>>>>>>> Is somebody working on ufsj? Was the summer of code project 
>>>>>>> successful?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scott Long is the core person working on ufsj, and I have seen some
>>>>>> stuff worked on in his perforce tree, but I think it's a ways away 
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> being beta.  I'm sure he would welcome help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was working on the ufsj stuff as a Google SoC project with Scott.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is very close to beta, however this past week involved school
>>>>> starting back up, so I have been unable to do any work at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, now that I am settled in at school (for some definition of
>>>>> settled in), I have time to devote to ufsj again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope to release a beta "real soon now", so stay tuned.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey Brian!  Thanks for the info - I've been very interested in the 
>>>> development of the project, but Scott is too busy doing other real 
>>>> stuff, and I oddly didn't even think to ask you anything. :(
>>>>
>>>> I'm willing to play with pre-beta patches or tarballs/etc.  Feel 
>>>> free to contact me off list if you'd like a guinea pig.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So am I.. I have the hw to test on too and i wanna test geomgui too (8
>>
>>
>> What is geomgui aimed at doing?  I've been wanting to write a geom 
>> viewer that displays (in near real-time) reads/writes to geom 
>> providers at a block level visually.  Is geomgui going to do something 
>> like that?  From the src I downloaded and ran from your site, it 
>> looked as though you wanted to show a layout of the geom connections.
>>
>> Eric
> 
> 
> Your right so far about geomgui. It is to show the way the different
> things are hooked up.
> But i have plans to make it an interface to the geom layer somehow. But
> i'm hooked up on other stuff at the moment.


Ok, cool.  Are your plans to interface to geom going to possibly help me 
with my quest for a visual display of real-time read/writes to geom 
devices?   If so, then we should work together..

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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