Notes20110321

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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2011-03-21.

Agenda

Next Meeting
- April 11th
Releases
- 5.5.1
  - Done. announcement later today
- 5.3
  - pre1 done
- 5.4
  - pre1 done
- 5.7
  - Wes wants to start in late April
  - Discussion about which features it would bring
  - Wes mentions he'll have more than average time to spend on it
  - consensus-ish to choose 5.7 as ok to start in late April
- Branch Life Times
  - with faster life cycles, maintaining branches becomes more of a problem
  - discussion about policy occurred and will be brought to the list
    - along with rstory's question about back-porting well tested features to older LTS branches
Administrative
- standardizing "please write to the list" notes? Possibly with a new wiki page with a longer explanation?
  - tabled due to time
Technical
- Testing
- Feature Marking and Selection
- IPv6 support
  - --enable-ipv6 vs --enable-transports, etc.
  - default ipv6 on these days?
- Windows Builds
- RPMs
- SVN vs GIT
  - slow migration proposed last time ; community split between which is better.
  - Decision should be aprilish
  - good google tech talk about it
Round Table