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

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:12 
> +0000 (UTC)):
>
>> rwatson     2008-03-18 00:12:12 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    en/projects/ideas    ideas.xml
>>  Log:
>>  Tag a number of project ideas as SoC-friendly.
>
> I already told Murray about those, as I've seen his SoC mail first, but here 
> again (short):
>
> - dtrace is scheduled to be committed, if there are outstanding things to do 
> for the SoC, they should be listed there

I agree, and am currently chatting with John Birrell about this.  He's working 
on writing up one or two ideas currently.

> - AFAIR geninput is handled by someone already, if he applies for the SoC 
> himself it's fine, if not we should talk with him if is is actively working 
> on this or if a SoC student would be welcome (no need to reinvent the wheel)

OK.  When I chatted with Philip he didn't mention this, but he did ponder 
combining the syscons and generic input stuff.  Has the person contacted 
Philip, or did Philip just forget to mention this? :-)

> - wi: Isn't Sam doing parts of this in his vap p4 branch?

When I asked Sam about this task yesterday, he felt the current description 
was fine, but advised me to add him as the contact.

> - performancetracking: As can be seen in this entry, there's a promising 
> WIP, have you contacted Erik about it? Kris may know more about this.

Kris seemed to like the current description and felt we should leave it 
up/open, as there's an opportunity here for people with specific benchmark 
interests to get involved, I believe.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge