Notes20080509

Agenda:

• next meeting time
  • Jun 2nd, 19:00 UTC
• status reports
  • 5.2.5 (Wes)
    • will release rc1 later today
  • 5.4.2 (Dave)
    • pre1 packaged and ready; will upload after meeting
  • makerelease (Wes/Dave)
    • Did use the new makerease
    • Notes: needed Getopt::GUI::Long for -h output
    • make distclean prompted a full configure run because of files
    • make checks threw some warnings (but that's not makerelease related)
    • md5sum and zipping had an issue (fixed)
    • In general: feels similar to the old makerelease script set though
• Coding Issues
  • autoconf/libtool versions (dts12)
    • no great opinion set.
    • Wes proposes freezing versions in branches looking for reactions but gets little; agreement sort of though for now
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  • gcc warnings, sparse, and similar tools (magfr)
    • should a big 0 => NULL patch be applied?
    • Consensus: yes
  • packaging (Jan; tabled till next meeting when he can make it)
    • General consensus: one large package with proper provides and conflicts
    • jsafrane wanted enterprise distro releases to be more directly compatible with the distro package though
      • ' Will write up summary and send to -coders'
  • MIB Module ReWrites
    • move to list as well
  • changes to types/data structures (dts12)
    • discussion on long => int_32 conversion
    • Would require a 6.0 number with lots of warnings
    • Will certainly break lots of third party code
    • no volunteers to do the work and support
• round-the-table "things being worked on" led by Wes
  • dts12: Mib-module-rewrite proposal; 5.4.2; desire to reconfigure configure
  • jsafrane: agentx deadlocks with trap loads
  • hardaker: 5.2.5 and UDP vs TCP study done; results to be published soon