On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:43 PM, ChenQin <warpte...@gmail.com> wrote: > HERE IS MY REQUEST FOR GSOC 2014~ > Name:ChenQin > Title:Downstream patches roundup and ushering > > Abstract : The goal of this project would to review available patches and > bugs from the key downstream maintainers and either contribute these as > patches to strace when relevant or work with the downstream maintainers to > contribute their patches back to strace. Ideally mini tools should be > created to collect these bugs and patches automatically on a regular basis > to inform the strace community of bugs and conversation happening elsewhere > than on the strace mailing list. > > Idea: > So my idea is to build a mini tool,collect these bugs and patches,and i will > check if these patches are right,and test it automatically.And separate the > bug by type etc.At last build a regular output to post some where like > community. > > For solved problems,i just grab the patches. > For automatic solve unsolved issues,i will down both version before and > after that branch,and run all test and test cases, > if they all pass,i will assume that patch is correct and the corresponding > issue is solved. [...] > for unix and linux distros, > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/commit-activity > according this url,they have 600 commits per week average. > And they have 599 such patched(described in that paper)for 3 years for > linux_kernel.
So I guess you would consider also improving the test coverage with new tests and setting up some test infratrsucture? How would you go about this? -- Philippe Ombredanne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list Strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
