Hi Ilie,

I agree that the WER would be useful.

My main concern with this is that in order to do it correctly (meaning as per Microsoft), we would need a server setting up to consume the error reports.

I realise that there is much more to WER than reporting crashes back to Microsoft, but if we start to dig into what features are available, you’ll realise that it’s a huge area.

One thing what needs addressing are usermode dumps. How do we do this? Ideally we’d like to output dumps in the same format as Windows does (dmp), but I’m not sure if anyone has the knowledge of the layout of these files.

If you are keen on this as a project though, I suggest you speak to Timo in IRC. Although he’s not a mentor, he has more experience than most in raising and catching exceptions and may be able to help guide you.

As for the timescale, 30 hours per week is more than enough time to be spending on a GSoC project.

Your time is entirely managed by you anyway, you just need to strive to complete before the deadline.

I wish you luck in whatever you choose.

Ged Murphy.

From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Ilie Halip
Sent: 29 March 2011 08:46
To: ros-dev@reactos.org
Subject: [ros-dev] GSoC 2011 idea

Hi!

My name is Ilie Halip, and I'm a student at the Faculty of Computer Science, in Iasi, Romania. I'd like to take part in this year's Google Summer of Code, and I was browsing the ideas page earlier.

What caught my eye was the Management Console, but after some discussions on IRC, I got very excited about another thing not listed on the wiki page for GSoC. It's about implementing support for Windows Error Reporting. It's listed at http://reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality. I think it's doable in less than 3 months, and might prove to be helpful too (the wiki page sais that :P). I'm not sure if you would accept this kind of proposal, so I'm here to ask about that. Also, I would need a mentor to help me with this project - so... would anyone be willing to mentor me, if this project would be accepted? I was also looking at WMI, but I know it's huge, and I'm not sure how much of it would be required to consider such a project successful.

Also, another thing I should mention. I do have a full time job right now. That's a reason I didn't dive into anything bigger listed on the ideas page. Even though I do have some experience writing Windows drivers (I wrote a file system filter driver 2 years back), I don't think I'd be able to write an Intel HDA driver in less than 3 months. But I talked to my superiors, and they are willing to let me work part-time during GSoC, so I should be able to work for my would-be project about 30 hours/week. Do you think that's enough?

Regards,
Ilie.