Notes20110808

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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2011-08-08.

Date and Time: 2011-08-08 19:00 UTC


  • Next Meeting
    • Sept 26th
  • Releases
    • 5.7.1
      • Windows patches in the patch tracker
      • pre1 after the meeting today
    • Windows binaries
      • dts12 will post new binaries later
  • Administrative
    • GIT
      • any general thoughts comments and feedback?
        • nope
      • rebase vs merge
        • no consensus
      • git commit -s --author
        • use this if possible; will document
      • merging of configure -- constant conflicts
        • Options
          1. manually merge
          2. automatted autoconf/merge shell function
          3. remove configure from git, and create a makefile.git or similar script
        • hardaker will look into detecting that the configure script is the only thing changed
        • will put autoconf versioning on the next agenda
      • any general thoughts comments and feedback?
    • LTS Timing
      • Need a wiki page describing the cycles and showing examples from Notes20110523
        • Progress on dts12 will create a document?
    • Spamming of Wiki
      • tabled
  • Technical
    • HR-MIB and RPM
      • follow up?
      • at some point we need to auto-detect a cache directory and stop linking against -lprm
    • numerical extend/exec output
      • dts12 has a new column to report numbers
      • will put in master, as it's a new feature
    • Architecture Wiki Pages
      • Wes has written a fair number of new pages, including Agent Architecture and others. Read them if you want to comment/complain/edit.
    • 6.0?
      • too big a topic for 5 minutes
    • systemd: How do the agent know if a passed tcp socket is for smux, agentx, ssh or snmp-over -tcp?
      • discuss on list
    • directory permissions for /var/net-snmp
      • take to list and discuss afterward
  • Round Table
    • hardaker: docs, mfd, mib2c, 5.7.1, and git stuff
    • rstory: catch up
    • bvanassche: windows testing
    • dts12: windows and git