Notes20110321 - fenner/net-snmp-wiki-experiment GitHub Wiki
Agenda
- Next Meeting
- Releases
- 5.5.1
- Done. announcement later today
- 5.3.4
- 5.4.4
- 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?
- yes (and Dave volunteers Wes to get it done).
- Technical
- Testing
- Feature Marking and
Selection
- IPv6 support
- --enable-ipv6 vs --enable-transports, etc.
- default ipv6 on these days?
- will enable by default on 5.7 onward
- Windows Builds
- Dave got helpful hints from Alex
- RPMs, DEBs, and system specific packaging.
- current consensus is to package according to the same
packaging that is done on the system itself
- users should get packages that replace the existing ones
with similar functionality
- as nba puts it: If we dont match the distro, we only
appeal to those who might as well compile their own
- SVN vs GIT
- slow migration proposed last time ; community split between
which is better.
- hardaker: +1
- magfr: 0
- dts12: would like to know more still and be more
comfortable
- Decision should be aprilish
- good google tech talk about
it
- Round Table
- Wes: scheduled delivery of data via notifications
- dts12: releases (5.3.4 and 5.4.4)
- rstory: dtls wrap-up (cookies and testing)
- nba: playing with netsnmpstat: so that it will work whether you
have tcpConnTable, ipv6TcpConnTable or tcpConnectionTable