Hi all, I would like to apply for logging/testing project. Here's my attempt to write more about my thoughts on how this should be done: First about logging: 1. pulseaudio has already had some support for log level, but it may need some improvements. 2. the category support is not yet. for this aspect, gstreamer does a much better job. So I would add similar mechanisms for pulseaudio. For every plugin, we can advocate developers declare a separate category. And then, we can something familiar as mymodule:4 to log what we want. 3. the idea of a circle buffer is good. therefore, we can create a new interface "pactl log" to display the log. The same as "dmesg", that would be great. However, about the details, Lennart has the idea of using compression for logging for the whole system, we could do the same if want to put more stuff in the circular buffer. 4. filtering the logs and display the output with colors are nice features. color output is available right now in pulseaudio, but we may need to adapt it into different situations, e.g. circular buffer. Then about testing: 1. gcov is all about coverage testing. I'm reading more documents about this tool. 2. As I skim through the code of pulseaudio, it seems it lacks the support for a testing framework. Many unit tests are made by developers themselves, and are ad hoc. E.g. the testing and benching program for resampling. 3. I'm not quite sure about what kind of test framework do we want? unit test framework? Overall functional framework? For unit testing, googletest seems to be an option. Or we could write our own? Any thoughts would be welcome. As Arun pointed out, this project might not be enough for GSoC, I'm also looking for another project. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120325/6f22b797/attachment.htm>
