From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jan 8 17:45:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1623137B41A; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 348DC78306; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:15:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:15:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Andrew R. Reiter" Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMPng biweekly updates Message-ID: <20020109121537.C77497@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 4 January 2002 at 17:50:46 -0500, Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > > I propose a biweekly mini-email that goes out to -smp that is essentially > an outline of what's being done, what's being discussed, what needs to be > done, and any design changes/thoughts. I'd like to think of it as a cvs > log dump for the SMPng project for a two week period. Essentially someone > would track the changes to the repo (p4 and cvs) and conversations that > happen randomly (irc, private email, mailing lists) and generate this > outline. I believe then that this would be an easy transition into > generating a monthly status report that are accurate and are helpful to > those who are not following -smp. Also, if we had had these, it would be > an easy way for someone who worked on the project but went on vacation to > come back and easily understand what has occured (or atleast allow for > making it extremely easy to find out what's changed). > > I am volunteering to do this job... But, what Im interested in is seeing > if those out there listening are interested in having this done... I think this would be a good start. IMO It's not enough, though. It seems to me that the real issue is that we don't have an overall strategy for SMPng. We had the beginnings of one, but it changed, and currently what we're seeing is detail work rather than the implementation of an overall architecture. We need to discuss that, and IRC isn't the place. Bosko started something a couple of weeks ago, but it didn't get anything near enough response. If we want SMPng to be a success, we need to address that issue first. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message