Notes20110221

Agenda

• Next Meeting
  • Mar 21st has been selected
• Releases
  • 5.5.1
    • 5.5.1.rc1 out, 5.5.1.rc2 out later in the week
    • Unanswered: Niels' has a set of IPv6 fixes for *BSD; what should they go in? (see below)
  • 5.3 closing?
  • 5.4 pushing out another?
    • '''dts12 will push both
• Administrative
• Technical
  • Testing
    • hardaker will be moving some of the code tests into a test-suite directory and adding more
    • discussion surrounding c99: consensus seems to be ANSI only and don't assume architecture specific files can hold improved C features because it's inconsistent
  • Feature Marking and Selection
    • Checkin likely this week
    • lots of changes and marking of bunches of functions
  • *BSD IPv6 fixes
    • Niels has a bunch of changes to fix IPv6 on the *BSD systems
    • mostly because of the changing code bases (BSD and Net-SNMP both)
    • will push into trunk and 5.6 for now
  • Windows Builds
    • dts12 started looking into it, needs more information'
    • bvassche is testing multiple combinations of options and compilers somewhat regularly
  • RPMs
  • SVN vs GIT
    • slow migration proposed last time ; community split between which is better
    • hardaker asks if anyone has more experience with it yet
    • bvassche> I'm getting more and more used to git and I'm starting to like it more and more.
    • dts12 hasn't played yet; wants to wait at least till after 5.2/5.3
    • Wes selects april as the decision month (ish)
    • bvassche provides a nice link on issues importing from svn
    • hardaker notes that git will provide better tracking of external patch submissions
  • makerelease source has moved to github
    • hardaker also notes that yasnippet support files are included now as well
  • 5.5.x branch architecture
    • dts12: the tag tree for 5.5 is messed up; should we fix it?
    • consensus: yes
• Round Table
  • hardaker: features support
  • dts12: 5.5.1