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[Jason Zurawski <>]

Colliding two worlds.

In the future mlab-ops should be sure to let ndt-dev know of changes 
like this since there are a lot more hands in the ndt code these days.

-jason

On 8/2/11 3:41 PM, thus spake Tiziana Refice:
> I briefly chatted with Thomas a few days ago and he said he could do it
> (with some help from you) by the end of this week.
>
> @Thomas,
> Is it still the case?
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:44, Josh King 
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>     Hi Tiziana,
>
>     I think this sounds like a great idea. These are pretty simple changes
>     that I could probably make pretty easily, but as I'll be out of town for
>     the first half of next week I'm not sure if I'll have time to do it on
>     that timeframe, so if someone else is able to to they should feel free
>     to take pass at it.
>
>     On 08/01/2011 01:43 PM, Tiziana Refice wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > To make it easier to analyze the data collected by NDT, I suggest
>     to modify
>      > the NDT client to log the application that runs a test.
>      > This way it will be possible to tell from the logs that a
>     specific test
>      > result was collected by a specific application (e.g., uTorrent,
>     M-Lab web
>      > site, Android app, FCC client, ...).
>      >
>      > In particular, I suggest to log such info in the meta file.
>      > This is the file that writes the meta file (
>      >
>     
> http://www.google.com/codesearch#3CG7BnVocJs/trunk/src/logging.c&q=log%20package:http://ndt%5C.googlecode%5C.com
>     
> <http://www.google.com/codesearch#3CG7BnVocJs/trunk/src/logging.c&q=log%20package:http://ndt%5C.googlecode%5C.com>),
>      > function writeMeta().
>      > For example, we could add an extra line after line 553, something
>     like
>      > fprintf(fp, "client application: %s\n", meta.application);
>      > where meta.application could be initialized from some property file.
>      >
>      > What do you think?
>      >
>      > The goal is to make the change by the beginning of next week.
>      >
>      > In addition, I wonder if it would make sense to also log the
>     version of the
>      > NDT client.
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > --Tiziana
>      >
>
>     --
>     Josh King
>     Technologist
>     Open Technology Initiative
>     New America Foundation