Notes20110523 - fenner/net-snmp-wiki-experiment GitHub Wiki

Agenda

Next Meeting
- June 20th
Releases
- 5.3.4
  - rc1 at the end of the week
- 5.4.4
  - rc1 at the end of the week
- 5.7
  - pre2 out todayish
Administrative
- Switching to GIT
  - Timing choices:
    1. switch now (ie, this week) for everything
    2. switch everything but the 5.{3,4}.4 branches this week, and apply patches from the svn tree later to the git tree after releases are finished.
    3. delay the switch till after 5.{3,4}.4 final (as long as it's before 5.7).
      - '''Daves' preference and Wes is fine with it, so we'll go with this choice unless 5.{3,4}.4 drag out too long.
- Bisectability of the SVN/git tree.
  - Agreed: We shouldn't push broken commits because it means git bisect breaks if you can't test the broken code in the middle of a bisect
- standardizing "please write to the list" notes? Possibly with a new wiki page with a longer explanation?
  - Wes wrote one: Please write responses to the mailing lists
    - feedback and editing appreciated
    - start pointing to it?
- LTS Timing
  - From last time: 5.4 and 5.7 will be LTS
  - How long is Long?
  - Dave's proposal: keep 2 LTS branches active, ensuring at least 5 years. Keep 3 branches otherwise
  - Examples:
    - 5.4L, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7L
    - 5.4L, 5.6, 5.7L, 5.8
    - 5.4L, 5.7L, 5.8, 5.9
    - 5.7L, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10L
Technical
- the infamous oid typedef issues
  - 5.6.1.1 still scheduled to go out
  - Should we consider going to a 6.0, where we change all types to match (the biggest becoming all the u_longs used everywhere for ints).
    - Wes notes that it may be possible to have a injectable handle that swaps types in the middle of a handler chain for legacy code
  - general discussion tabled for future meetings about 6.0
- Windows Builds
  - Dave hopefully has windows working? Needs wiki post about doing it.
Round Table
- dts12: 5.x.4
- hardaker: 5.7 and git
- bvanassche: wiki pages about git