status of ufsj and gjournal

[Soeren Straarup]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:

> Soeren Straarup wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
>> 
>>> Soeren Straarup wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Brian Wilson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 9/9/05, Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> db at nipsi.de wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>>>>> I wonder whats the status of those summer of code projects.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> From gjournal we heard that it has been completed but then nothing 
>>>>>>>>> happens, any
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> further information about this?
>>>>>>>> Is somebody working on ufsj? Was the summer of code project 
>>>>>>>> successful?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Scott Long is the core person working on ufsj, and I have seen some
>>>>>>> stuff worked on in his perforce tree, but I think it's a ways away 
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> being beta.  I'm sure he would welcome help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was working on the ufsj stuff as a Google SoC project with Scott.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is very close to beta, however this past week involved school
>>>>>> starting back up, so I have been unable to do any work at all.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, now that I am settled in at school (for some definition of
>>>>>> settled in), I have time to devote to ufsj again.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I hope to release a beta "real soon now", so stay tuned.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Brian!  Thanks for the info - I've been very interested in the 
>>>>> development of the project, but Scott is too busy doing other real 
>>>>> stuff, and I oddly didn't even think to ask you anything. :(
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm willing to play with pre-beta patches or tarballs/etc.  Feel free to 
>>>>> contact me off list if you'd like a guinea pig.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So am I.. I have the hw to test on too and i wanna test geomgui too (8
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What is geomgui aimed at doing?  I've been wanting to write a geom viewer 
>>> that displays (in near real-time) reads/writes to geom providers at a 
>>> block level visually.  Is geomgui going to do something like that?  From 
>>> the src I downloaded and ran from your site, it looked as though you 
>>> wanted to show a layout of the geom connections.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> Your right so far about geomgui. It is to show the way the different
>> things are hooked up.
>> But i have plans to make it an interface to the geom layer somehow. But
>> i'm hooked up on other stuff at the moment.
>
>
> Ok, cool.  Are your plans to interface to geom going to possibly help me with 
> my quest for a visual display of real-time read/writes to geom devices?   If 
> so, then we should work together..
>

I'll gladly add stuff (patches (;) and make a new release, but i don't
have any time atm to develop on it, sorry.

Søren

Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
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