Notes20070302

Notes from the admin meeting on 2007-03-02

• Next meeting date
  • March 30th. Agenda: Notes20070330
• Status of Conversion to SVN
  • Structure of tags/branches
    • should we separate active and inactive branches? e.g. move old branches to "old_branches"
    • Dave: to float proposal by (coders?) list
• Google Summer of Code
  • volunteer needed as primary mentor: rstory dts12 as backup
  • look for list of possible tasks from last year
  • rstory to send scheduling requirements to the list
• Library layering
  • Everyone agreed that Wes was right that things need to be merged. Wes fell over.
  • tanders thinks he will be doing the work
  • potentially we should think about moving stuff around at a later date. (Dave's example: agentx, util routines, etc)
• Coverity bugs
  • the majority are trivial bugs, but we should hit these
  • dts12: there are a lot of bugs in the S/F tracker too...
• Close

Other topics discussed afterwards:

• autoconf 2.5x doesn't activate caching by default - this also affects manually-prompted values (contact, location, etc)
  • the configure prompts need to be updated, so as not to imply that these settings will be remembered.
• build system for auto-calling configure, etc, seems out of whack.
  • why is config.status called automatically during "make clean"? (when configure has changed)
  • Dave will raise the issue on the coders list
• Problems with corrupted binary files (esp. images) in the SVN repository
  • DTS and SVN fought to an honourable draw.