Contribute to the project!
We are always looking for people who are willing to
contribute. You do not have to be a programmer to help the project.
There are a lot of different tasks for which we hope to find
volunteers.
As a first active step, we recommend you to join the
iometer-user mailing list
[more].
Here many of the iometer users are discussing different topics and
issues. Joining the discussion, learning from others as well as
helping others is the first step forward which helps the project a
lot!
A next step is to join the iometer-devel mailing list
[more].
Here the project members are discussing the different project related
issues (today most communication is still email between the involved
people). But you are also more then welcome to contact the project
members directly.
Here is a list of some tasks for which we are looking
for help:
Programming |
status |
task |
started (1, 2) |
- Code Cleanup
- Consolidate the different code and header files
- Consolidate and decouple the different global defines
|
ongoing |
- Tackling Bug Reports [more]
|
ongoing |
- Tackling Feature Requests [more]
|
none |
- Development of an Hardware Abstraction Layer (hiding CPU, OS and OS family specifics)
|
none |
- Porting to different operating systems and hardware platforms
- Operating System: AIX
- Operating System: (Free|Net)BSD
- Operating System: IRIX
- Processor: Alpha
- Processor: MIPS (R10000 etc)
- Processor: PowerPC
- Processor: XScale
|
none |
- Iometer GUI for Non-Windows (Java)
|
|
Testing |
status |
task |
started |
- Building an QA testsuite (using dd and netperf as base line)
|
none |
- Testing new builds / releases (especially
combinations without prebuild package)
- Solaris (on SPARC)
- 64 bit Windows
|
|
Documentation |
status |
task |
none |
- Keeping the Users Guide up to date
|
none |
- Building an FAQ document (based on the work of Richard Riggs)
|
|
Others |
status |
task |
none |
- Analyse source code and describe data flow etc
in the Developers Guide
|
none |
- Building a rich set of sample ICF's (synthetic and
real world work load)
|
none |
- Setup a results database (simular to netperf.org)
|
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