Notes20070511

Date and Time: May 11th 1300 UTC

Notes on this admin meeting.

Agenda items:

• next meeting date
  • new time slot still needs discussion over email...
    • a later slot would suit magfr better, but tanders/dts12 might be more constrained
    • 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
    • list for information/discussion on -coders
    • Entry 'log cleanup on sighup' needs better text
  • policy for enabling new features 2006-09-28
    • Re-writes of existing functionality should be shipped disabled for one full release before activating
    • completely new features can be turned on immediately
    • ask for opinions if a new feature is likely to have significant impact
  • sensors on by default? 2006-11-03

    See Bug #1608388

    • activate 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
    • activate for 5.5 - not for 5.4.x

• SVN issues
  • Binary files 2007-03-02
    • tanders: still needs double-checking, I think

      Dave has list of corrupted files; will post or fix

    • possibly affects win32 files too.

      Thomas will draw up list

  • 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 is not to split the list
  • Feature Request blitz
    • Dave to identify possibly problematical issues, and raise on -coders
    • Aspect-oriented review

      See Feature Request #1706771

      • consensus: no

• Code Issues
  • md5 default last meeting
    • decision tabled till after code import gets in place.
  • Library layering 2007-03-02
    • tanders: willing to work on it reasonably soon
    • tanders on call
  • Coverity bugs 2007-03-02
    • Wes to contact Coverity about using SVN code
  • make + autoconf 2007-03-02

    tanders: fixed, IIRC

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

    • discussion but no resolution and tabled
  • [remaining issues not discussed]
  • memory MIB inconsistencies 2006-11-03
  • 64bit nlist? 2006-09-08
    • tanders: --without-kmem-usage seems enough for the moment