Re: Invitation for public teleconference with SystemTap developers

[fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

wcohen wrote:

> As an experiment, we're inviting SystemTap users and interested
> others to an informal teleconference with the developers.  [...]

Thank you for organizing the call.  It was nice to hear from some old
friends.  Next time (a month or two hence?), perhaps we should more
widely advertise the call, to encourage more new voices.

Here are my notes:

public meeting minutes 2010-09-30

* self-identified callers
  - maneesh (ex-ibm)
  - wcohen (rh)
  - fche (rh)
  - dsmith (rh)
  - brolley (rh client-server / unprivileged users)
  - adk (rh)
  - srikar (ibm uprobes)
  - jistone (rh, ex-intel)
  - prasadv (ibm)
  - ananth (ibm)
  - mjw (rh)

* features for release 1.4
  - tracker bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11179
  - PR11550 - dynamic probe parameters
  - PR11995 - dynamic on-the-fly probes
  - many other smaller features

* cloud computing extensions
  - dsmith: nfs probing, studying graphical frontends
  - jistone: remote execution (cross-compilation, merged outputs)
  - fche: discussions with PCP group re. stap / event-tracing integration
  - will open some tracking PRs

* process for contributions
  - no copyright assignment required
  - script examples: under /testsuite/systemtap.exmples/{README,}
  - tapsets: under /tapset
  - translator: /README

* open mike
  - n/a

* per-developer status reports next time


- FChE