Notes20110321

Net-SNMP Meeting
2011-03-21

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

Date and Time: 2011-03-21 20:00 UTC

Agenda

• Next Meeting
  • April 11th
• Releases
  • 5.5.1
    • Done. announcement later today
  • 5.3.4
    • pre1 done
  • 5.4.4
    • 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?
    • yes (and Dave volunteers Wes to get it done).
• Technical
  • Testing
    • no comments
  • Feature Marking and Selection
    • no comments
  • 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
      • will post to the wiki
  • 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