On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
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.
To have it on the ideas list we don't need a GSoC mentor... basically I say
that I think that the DTraceToolkit stuff should stay on the ideas list in
some form (doesn't matter to me if it is marked up fro the GSoC or not).
On the ideas list, perhaps, but I feel increasingly strongly that no idea
without a technical contact should be tagged as GSoC-appropriate, and that we
should also have mentors in mind for every project there. Pre-submission
interaction improves not just the quality of the proposal, but also gives us
an early sense as to whether they have the right skills so that they can tune
the proposal to what it turns out the students are able to do. I also feel we
shouldn't invite people to submit proposals on an idea if we don't have
someone willing to mentor them, because we've had that happen and it's
unproductive :-).
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
That aside, as I already added a lot of dtrace probes in my linuxulator user
branch (slowed down a little bit ATM because of other high priority tasks), I
feel confident to mentor some DTrace probes related GSoC project (if there's
some interest out there that this should be done), so the mentor part should
not be a showstopper.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
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become the expert.
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