Dce-1.0

Schedule for 1.0 release

• 15th March, 2013: call for voluntary to walk through tutorial document and testing
• 30th March, 2013: new feature freeze
• (2weeks before release, TBD): code freeze
• (TBD): RC-1

• (TBD): dce-1.0 release

Call for volunteers of Testing, Reviewing

Dear folks,

We, Direct Code Execution (DCE) project, are going to release the first version of DCE with coming April release of ns-3. We would like to ask your help for document reviews and tests.

The followings are the instruction to the test. If you have any question, please drop an email to me (Hajime Tazaki: tazaki at sfc.wide.ad.jp).

Document for Review

• Quick Start Guide: http://www.nsnam.org/~thehajime/ns-3-dce-next-doc/doc/build/html/index.html
• User's Guide: http://www.nsnam.org/~thehajime/ns-3-dce-next-doc/doc/build/html/dce-user-doc.html

Test Instruction

1. Follow Quick Start Guide and check whether contents are correct and able to finish without any issues.
2. (If possible) Follow User's Guide and check whether contents are correct and able to finish without any issues.

Report Template

OS: (Distribution, e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 64bits)
Result:
1 (Quick Start Guide): Success/Fail/Other

2 (User's Guide): Success/Fail/Other
Comments:

Supported/Unsupported features

	UcontextFiberManager	PthreadFiberManager
CoojaLoaderFactory	Supported	Supported
CoojaLoaderFactory with elf-loader	Should work, but won't support	Unsupported (Bug1513)
DlmLoaderFactory with elf-loader	Should work, but won't support	Unsupported (Bug1513)

Bugs being worked

• 1580: doxygen description Hajime
• 1594: gcov coverage test support for applications over DCE Hajime
• 1593: support DCE sub-module under myscripts directory Hajime
• 1448: DCE Kernel mode. Create a helper in order to create automatically the static routes. Hajime
• 1513: Use Linux kernel stack for ns-3 applications Hajime
• 1455: Support the python binding of DCE Hajime

Pending code review

• Bug1513: Use Linux kernel stack for ns-3 applications
• Change Scheduling of event according to NS-3 requisite: ie use only the main thread to

Things to do

• migrate repository from 'furbani' to 'code'
• migrate ns-3-linux and ns-3-linux-3 repository to github's one.
• create jenkins test suite
• fix valgrind errors (so many)
• test with document (quick start guide, user's guide)
• update web page (http://www.nsnam.org/projects/direct-code-execution/)
• nsnam.org/doc/dce
• put stable versions/revisions to bakeconf.xml