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@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 ###
 ### Ongoing stuff
 ###
+
+Document the fact that gras processes display the backtrace on sigusr and sigint
+Document XBT_LOG_EXTERNAL_DEFAULT_CATEGORY
+Document host module
+
 /* FIXME: better place? */
 int vasprintf  (char **ptr, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
 char *bprintf(const char*fmt, ...) _XBT_GNUC_PRINTF(1,2);
 
-Replace fifo with dynars
-
-Replace set with SWAG
+Module renamings:
+ - rename SWAG to RING?
+ - Rename cursor to iterator
 
-Rename SWAG to RING?
-
-Rename cursor to iterator
+gras_socket_close should be blocking until all the data sent have been
+received by the other side (implemented with an ACK mechanism).
 
 ###
 ### Planned
@@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
     (errors, logs ; dynars, dicts, hooks, pools; config, rrdb)
 
 [portability layer]
-  * Mallocators and/or memory pool so that we can cleanly kill an actor
+  * maybe a memory pool so that we can cleanly kill an actor
 
 [errors/exception]
   * Better split casual errors from programing errors.
@@ -53,12 +57,8 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
   * Several appenders; fix the setting stuff to change the appender
   * more logging appenders (take those from Ralf in l2)
 
-[dict]
-  * speed up the cursors, for example using the contexts when available
-
 [modules]
-  * better formalisation of what modules are (amok deeply needs it)
-    configuration + init() + exit() + dependencies
+  * Add configuration and dependencies to our module definition
   * allow to load them at runtime
     check in erlang how they upgrade them without downtime
 
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
   * we may need a round-robin database module, and a statistical one
   * a hook module *may* help cleaning up some parts. Not sure yet.
   * Some of the datacontainer modules seem to overlap. Kill some of them?
+    - replace fifo with dynars
+    - replace set with SWAG
 
 *
 * GRAS
@@ -123,13 +125,6 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
     Depends on the previous item; difficult to achieve with firewalls
 
 [datadesc]
-  * Implement gras_datadesc_cpy to speedup things in the simulator
-    (and allow to have several "actors" within the same unix process).
-    For now, we mimick closely the RL even in SG. It was easier to do
-      since the datadesc layer is unchanged, but it is not needed and
-      hinders performance.
-    gras_datadesc_cpy needs to provide the size of the corresponding messages, so
-     that we can report it into the simulator.
   * Add a XML wire protocol alongside to the binary one (for SOAP/HTTP)
   * cbps:
     - Error handling
@@ -144,7 +139,8 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
   * Parsing macro
     - Cleanup the code (bison?)
     - Factorize code in union/struct field adding
-    - Handle typedefs (needs love from DataDesc/)
+    - Handle typedefs (gras_datatype_copy can be usefull, but only if
+      main type is already defined)
     - Handle unions with annotate
     - Handle enum
     - Handle long long and long double
@@ -160,18 +156,8 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
   * gras_datadesc_import_nws?
 
 [Messaging]
-  * A proper RPC mecanism
-    - gras_rpctype_declare_v (name,ver, payload_request, payload_answer)
-      (or gras_msgtype_declare_rpc_v). 
-    - Attaching a cb works the same way.
-    - gras_msg_rpc(peer, &request, &answer)
-    - On the wire, a byte indicate the message type:
-      - 0: one-way message (what we have for now)
-      - 1: method call (answer expected; sessionID attached)
-      - 2: successful return (usual datatype attached, with sessionID)
-      - 3: error return (payload = exception)
-      - other message types are possible (forwarding request, group
-        communication)
+  * Other message types than oneway & RPC are possible:
+     - forwarding request, group communication
   * Message priority
   * Message forwarding
   * Group communication
@@ -204,10 +190,9 @@ Rename cursor to iterator
 ******
 
 [bandwidth]
-  * finish this module (still missing the saturate part)
   * add a version guessing the appropriate datasizes automatically
 [other modules]
   * provide a way to retrieve the host load as in NWS
   * log control, management, dynamic token ring
   * a way using SSH to ask a remote host to open a socket back on me
- 
+ 
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