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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2011-10-24.

Date and Time: 2011-10-24 19:00 UTC

  • Next Date
    • nov 14th
  • Releases
    • 5.7.1 (should be out)
    • what's next?
      • Nothing immediate; think of 5.5.x and 5.6.x after December
  • Administrative
    • Git
      • git describe produces strange results
        • ie, on 5.5 it shows a tag of v5.4
          • hardaker suspects this is because the 5.4 branch is merged into 5.5, and the v5.4 tag was released more recently than any 5.5 tags
      • ChangeLog generation
        • hardaker notes that the current ChangeLog generation done by git2cl may not be accurate and would like to consider alternatives
        • Discussion:
          1. what are the goals of the changelog?
            • A detailed indication of what has happened to a particular development line
            • Raw material for CHANGES/NEWS files
          2. how useful/used/important do we with think the file is?
            • probably not essential
            • One of the better documentation introductions!
            • users rely on a change log to take upgrade decisions. So I think that a good change log / release notes are really important.
          3. as long as we meet #1 in some way, is another choice ok?
            • Sure
    • autoconf
      • rehashing of previous discussion surrounding use of latest autoconf on all branches
      • tanders brings up a point of older distros not being able to update to a later release on a patch tree
        • some distros might force-run autoreconf?
        • some distros might patch configure but don't have the latest autoconf available and thus if we use later features they're stuck.
    • 6.0
  • Technical
    • Secondary address support for Linux in IP-MIB is broken.
      • ifaliases on linux are broken because of : searching is likely wrong; bvanassche hopes to look at it in a few weeks.
    • Wiki captcha is broken - "socket closed".
  • roundtable
    • hardaker: not much lately
    • dts12: work
    • tanders: 5.7 on Solaris
    • bvanassche: memory leaks
    • tanders: debian to 5.7.1