Notes20111219

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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2011-12-19.

Date and Time: 2011-12-19 20:00 UTC

  • Next Date
    • Jan 16
  • Releases
    • What's next?
      • 5.5/5.6 simultaneous starting in January
      • 5.7 after that
  • Administrative
    • Git
      • CHANGES/NEWS needs to be generated -- Wes will try to look into it
    • autoconf and replacing it
    • 6.0 and what should go into it
    • Google SOC
      • Ideas:
        • red/black tree for containers
        • multi-threading. EG optional threading in the network layer moving io to its own thread
          • needs a strong regression testing suite, including ideally a race-detector
          • integration with an external event loop, eg libevent
          • non-blocking v3 and agentx probes
        • discuss again in January
  • Technical
    • Secondary address support for Linux in IP-MIB is broken.
      • long discussion... something is wrong and different kernels support adding addresses to existing interfaces in different ways.
        • is fedora broken by forcing alias addressing?
    • Wiki captcha is broken - "socket closed".
      • wes will check
    • udp
      • udp_recvfrom/sendto removal
        • remove these? Hopefully they're not widely used?
        • dts12 failed to find google searches for them
      • udpbase_send/recv to ipv4
    • solaris 11 -- trogl
      • released solaris 11 with net-snmp 5.4.1
      • write up a faq article stating they did this and propose upgrade/drop in replacements for them
  • Roundtable
    • rstory: maintenance mode
    • hardaker: distracted