Notes20150608

• Next Date
  • 2015-07-06
• Releases
  • Further discussion on last month's proposed timeline
    • Proposal accepted last time, accepted this time:
      1. Close 5.5 and 5.6 branches now
      2. Work on bug fixes
      3. release a 5.4 in a few months
      4. close 5.4 branch
      5. release 5.8
      6. release 5.7
• Administrative
  • ?
• Technical
  • Incoming large patches
    • long description of patches being submitted by VMWare
    • plan going forward:
      • major patch #1 (bugs, apis, etc) goes into 5.8/master
      • major patch #2 containing cmake support goes into a branch coming off of master to test
      • will decide in the future about when to merge back
  • git filters
    • robert's proposed checking script (if not approved by now)
    • White space -- enforce no tabs policy, etc?
  • what about moving to C99 (proposed by Magnus)
    • decided to bundle with the cmake tree
  • Patch database needs help
• Roundtable
  • rstory/hardaker: patch support from VMWare
  • fenestro: agentx getbulk