Notes20070511

Place agenda items for the next admin meeting here.

Date and Time: May 11th 1300 UTC

Agenda items:

• next meeting date
  • new time slot still needs discussion over email...
    • a later slot could pick up magfr better, but tanders would be slightly negatively impacted
    • if a later slot picked, likely june 1st
  • if timeslot can't change, then june 8th

• Release issues
  • schedule for 5.4.1
    • pretty much immediately
    • release manager: Wes
  • 5.4.1 open issues list
    • log cleanup on sighup needs better text
  • policy for enabling new features 2006-09-28
    • new features can be turned on immediately
    • ask for opinions if new feature directly impacts everything
  • sensors on by default? 2006-11-03

    See Bug #1608388

    • will do for 5.5 assuming issues can be resolved
    • needs to lib test in configure, and module must take that into account when turning on
  • Enable ifTable/lmsensors for 5.5 - action: rstory
    • not yet

• SVN issues
  • Binary files 2007-03-02
    • tanders: still needs double-checking, I think
    • Dave has list; will post
    • possibly win32 files too.
  • ESR access 2007-02-09
    • Wes will send response

• S/Forge issues
  • More focussed mailing lists (e.g. perl, python, java, etc)

    See thread "current status of python bindings in the trunk" on -coders

  • consensus in room is to not split the list
  • Feature Request blitz
    • dave to ask on -coders for a few at a time to see about responding/deciding on some of them
    • Aspect-oriented review

      • See Feature Request #1706771

Code Issues

• • md5 default last meeting
  • Library layering 2007-03-02
    • tanders: willing to work on it reasonably soon
  • Coverity bugs 2007-03-02
  • make + autoconf 2007-03-02

    tanders: fixed, IIRC

    dts12: prompts have been updated, not sure about status of "make clean"

  • memory MIB inconsistencies 2006-11-03
  • 64bit nlist? 2006-09-08
    • tanders: --without-kmem-usage seems enough for the moment