[lttng-dev] LTTng & Google Summer of Code 2013

[Christian Babeux]

Hi lttng-droids,

As a follow up to the initial discussion, here is the detailed ideas
list for the proposition for GSoC 2013:

http://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013

Feedback and corrections are quite welcome!

Thanks,

Christian


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Christian Babeux
<christian.babeux at efficios.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> After some initial discussion with the LTTng developers, we think it
> would be a great opportunity for the LTTng project to participate as a
> mentoring organisation in Google Summer of Code 2013.
>
> Apparently, some attempts were made in the past years but the
> application deadline was missed by a few picoseconds ;).
>
> Here are some of the requirements for a mentoring organisation application [1]:
>
> "
> What is the URL for your Ideas page?
> What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
> What is the main IRC channel for your organization?
> Does your organization have an application template you would like to
> see students use? If so, please provide it now.
> "
>
> One of the *most* important point of this list is to have an idea
> pages/list ready for the application.
>
> Here are some projects ideas that a student or intern could
> accomplish within the scope of Google Summer of Code:
>
> - Continue the Android port of LTTng
> - Continue the work done on Python bindings for babeltrace/lttng-tools.
> - Trace probe support in C++ [2].
> - A meta-command support in lttng-tools (ex: lttng --trace, see [3]).
> - Improve the liblttng-ust-libc-wrapper with additionnal libc functions support.
> - LTTV features.
> - Implement syscalls on other architectures (maybe not relevant, see [4])
> - Hook the trace/debug infrastructure of Wine in UST.
> - Etc.
>
> So I'm asking the community for feedback and ideas to get this
> application going!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian
>
> [1] - https://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#mentoring_apply
> [2] - http://bugs.lttng.org/issues/338
> [3] - http://bugs.lttng.org/issues/15
> [4] - http://bugs.lttng.org/issues/33