[systemd-devel] Moving systemd-bootchart to a standalone repository

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 22.02.16 10:45, Kok, Auke-jan H (auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com) wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:17:51AM -0800, Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
> >> Splitting it out increases that potential and will allow
> >> systemd-bootchart to evolve out of cycle again, and look a bit over
> >> the fence. I've reviewed most of the changes to it, and noticed a bit
> >> of a drop of risky commits, and those are the ones that are going to
> >> be needed for this project to make it a useful tool in the future.
> >>
> >> So, I think this is a great move, one that certainly will motivate me
> >> to engage more deeply again :)
> > Hi Auke,
> >
> > what kind of big changes would you have in mind?
> > Just the fact of being in one repo with systemd should not have
> > much effect on changes to bootchart which is mostly standalone...
> 
> I have been asked on several occasions to make bootchart more
> palatable for other OS's, including ChromeOS and even Android. This
> has previously been shelved entirely, and I don't know if it's
> currently even feasible, but at least logistically it should be a lot
> easier to attempt.
> 
> The rest of the things I was looking at were items that being in-tree
> did not affect, like new ways of grouping the process bars, better IO
> visualization, etc.

Auke, could you have a look at
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2664 and give your blessing? 

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat