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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:11:44 +0000 (GMT), Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (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 :)