Re: call for collaborators: bug isolation via remote program sampling

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

Hi,

> My collaborators and I are working on a tool for isolating bugs using 
> random sampling of user executions.  This message is an open call for 
> collaboration.  Would any of you be interested in working with us to use 
> our bug isolation system with your GNOME projects or distributions?  If 
> so, please read on.
<snip>
> .... If you work on a project that 
> provides testing binaries to willing guinea pigs, then you're someone 
> we'd like to work with.

This sounds more like garnome ( garnome-list gnome org; see also
www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome for a quick overview of what the garnome
project is) than the gnome-bugsquad (garnome distributes many
development versions of Gnome [as source; not as binaries], whereas the
bugsquad is more involved in keeping bugzilla sane).


Out of curiosity, how long does it take to instrument code?  Is it a
massive change, or is it more like electric fence, where merely linking
the associated libraries can give you almost all the benefits?

Elijah

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