Notes20110221

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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2011-02-21.

Date and Time: 2011-02-21 20:00 UTC


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