Notes20080115

This is the meeting minutes and agenda for the Meeting on 2008-01-15.

Date and Time: January 15th 21:00 UTC?

Agenda:

• Next meeting date (Wes)
  • decided: Feb 11th
• Status reports
  • 5.3.2 (released)
    • trogl's only comment: release instructions don't work well on solaris
      • • Wes will work on recreating current release in the new makerelease project
        • We'll work after that on reordering and rechecking
    • no announcement sent yet? wes will create one later
    • magfr changes to trunk discussed; versioning is quite different
      • should it be applied to earlier releases?
      • people want review first, but no opposition unless problems are found
  • Next release? (rstory)
    • 5.2.5?
      • 5.2.5 general consensus
      • Wes will do release as he works on a new release script
  • coverity (Wes)
    • ugh, Wes needs to contact coverity (still)
• Coding issues
  • Multiple 5.4.1 container-related crash reports: roadmap to solution? (rstory)
    • patch 1712645 has been submitted, but considered "not ideal"
  • Handling of Patches (e.g. Jan Safranek/c_varun)
    • Wes will write back
• New projects and things being worked on
  • Dave's MIB rewrites
    • picking up again after break
    • Currently looking at UCD:disk & HostRes:FSTable
• Round-the-table of work items (everyone; led by Wes)
  • dts12: UCD/HostRes merging :-)
  • hardaker: is likely to do some UDP vs TCP profiling soon, some new security module work and potentially some speed improvements to some of the handler mechanisms
  • magfr: sysORTable rewrite (delayed due to bug)
  • tanders: still considering v3/USM performance improvements, but noone offered help.
  • rstory: i'd like to throw out an idea i've been thinking about for a while... a new-snmp non-profit organization to try and get funding for make net-snmp more, uh... better... major features, fixes, keeping up with patches... etc...
    • discussion ensued... no objections but little effort available to volunteer time toward it.