From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <444404DC.60905@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:13:00 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] collecting xenomai statistics References: <200604171047.51730.niklaus.giger@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <200604171047.51730.niklaus.giger@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5444CAC973BA37EB64C06295" Sender: jan.kiszka@domain.hid List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: niklaus.giger@domain.hid Cc: xenomai-core This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5444CAC973BA37EB64C06295 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Niklaus Giger wrote: > Hi >=20 > Following a suggestion from Philippe Gerum I propose to collect and pre= pare=20 > like this: >=20 > a) Make it easy to collect information >=20 > add -s/-c option to xeno-test, help text would look like=20 > -s send output of xeno-test to xeno-stat@domain.hid > -c if -s, send also kernel config file to xeno-stat@domain.hid= > (May be patch xeno-config to emit also the revision of the svn checkout= ?) >=20 > b) Setup an e-mail account xeno-stat@domain.hid. >=20 > c) Add a archiver which generates daily a gzipped tar file of all messa= ges=20 > ever sent to xeno-stat@domain.hid (e.g. of its mbox). Make it availabl= e=20 > somewhere on the internet. >=20 > d) Write a converter the raw messages into more suitable representation= , eg. a=20 > MySQL-DB, a spreadsheet format. Extract the raw message and kernel conf= ig and=20 > store the publicly accessible on the internet. The DB/spreadsheet will = > contain pointers (URLs) to the raw message/kernel config. >=20 > e) Write viewers which present interesting statistics. E.g. X/HTML page= s to=20 > present a ordered (by architecture, board, version, etc) view of the=20 > available results. Do you know http://issaris.org/rtai (the RTAI LiveCD)? It's no longer maintained but may still contain useful ideas, and Takis (Panagiotis Issaris) will likely be happy to answer questions on details of his approach. >=20 > I would like to advance like this: >=20 > I am not interested in step a), as it is easy for me just to write a tr= ivial=20 > script to sent the xeno-test output to any address. Also adding the rev= ision=20 > of svn checkout is not very difficult. >=20 > For point b+c) I am lacking the necessary rights, but it easy for me to= setup=20 > a similar account for my tests here. But I would appreciate, if somebod= y of=20 > the core team would help me to get this work done. >=20 > For point d+e) I will (after a week of vacation with my son) invest som= e work.=20 > But I would be very interested in knowing exactly which kind of informa= tion=20 > the core developers are interested in. How should it be presented? In t= abular=20 > form? Graphs, which ones? And kind of feedback will be evaluated and=20 > integrated. >=20 I think starting with what Takis once collected would be more than enough for a first round. I cannot provide you access to the infrastructure, but I vote for granting it. Great commitment! Jan --------------enig5444CAC973BA37EB64C06295 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFERATcniDOoMHTA+kRAn2NAJ9dahE6a0EUSrAX1CdWyIR80vheZACdG80b zwRaRA3QMOABYY5BHt3wo94= =imEH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5444CAC973BA37EB64C06295--