On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Emilio G. Cota <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As you might know--I see LTTng participated in it in previous > years--the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application deadline > for organisations is in 4 days.
My heart skipped a beat here! The applications start in 4 days, we still have unti February 20th. > > I wonder if there would be interest in proposing urcu-related > projects for GSoC. So far I've got one project idea: > > * Port liburcu to Windows, plus extensive testing on the BSD's > and Darwin so that support for those can be officially > claimed. The motivation for this is that at least one > multi-platform open-source project (QEMU) is already using > RCU, and its lack of Windows support has forced them to > effectively fork RCU.[1] > I have no experience doing Windows development but I volunteer > to mentor if needed. Of course somebody with experience > developing for Windows would be more appropriate. > > I don't know under what open-source organisation this could > be done, but since LLTng has a good track record with GSoC > maybe that's the best option we have. Thoughts? It could certainly be a project done as part of our organization. I'll keep it in mind and see what Mathieu has to say, considering he's the URCU maintainer. Thanks! Jérémie > > Thanks, > > Emilio > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317087 > for pull request. Final pull request here: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317371 > > I brought up the issue of (among other options) adding Windows > support in urcu to avoid the fork here: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317656/ > > _______________________________________________ > lttng-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev -- Jérémie Galarneau EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev
