Re: Release announcement suggestions for 0.7

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

Mark Wielaard <mwielaard@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> I listed all the bugs fixes since 0.6.2, plus their resolution. But I
> think I will remove the ones that are marked DUPLICATE, INVALID,
> WORKSFORME and WONTFIX since they are probably not really interesting.

Makes sense.

> There are lists of test results (make installcheck) on various systems I
> had access to. The 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 results don't look that good
> though and are from a qemu-kvm instance. On real hardware I have not
> been able to get a full make installcheck run because the machine will
> randomly hang. Till now I have been unable to get to the bottom of this
> issue (and strangely in a virtual environment everything seems fine).

IMO we should consider this mysteriosity as a "blocker" for the
release.  Could you try a 2.6.24 kernel on the same hardware &
systemtap version?

> [...]
> For a full overview see the stapex(5) manual page.

(I believe that this man page does not contain any information about
the separate example script files.  It probably should.

> - Stack backtraces for x86 and x86-64 are generated by a dwarf
>   debuginfo-based unwinder [...]

(This part is under maintenance and may be premature to announce
until e.g. it works for userspace.)

> - Inclusion of Compile server (stap-server) and Compile server client
>   (stap-client).

These parts are brand new prototypes.


> = Know issues with this release:
>   <FIXME>

The hangs on 2.6.25 would be one.  :-(


- FChE