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This is the meeting agenda/notes for the Meeting held on 2010-02-22.

Agenda

Next Meeting Date
- Mar 15th
Releases
- 5.2.x -- dts12
  - Dave is deleday due to work. Will likely do one more pre-release
- 5.4.x -- dts12
  - Dave is delayed due to work. Will likely do one more pre-release
- 5.6 in May/June?
  - Wes proposes this
  - difficult but ok to shoot for -- Wes
  - discussion surrounding "what's in it"
    - isms support among other things
  - No real objections, but no real support either
  - result: probably; confirm next time
Administrative Issues
- Wes reminds that we backport patches to all branches possible, but only fixes (no features).
Coding Issues
- RPM API incompatibilities
  - 5.[2-4] has issues with RPM
  - jsafrane suggests you probably need -D_RPM_4_4_COMPAT
  - jasfrane will look into the problem
- Noting the new Command Line Calling Order page -- Wes
- Transport changes likely coming soon
  - Resulting from TLS work mainly
  - Changes involved:
    - auto-transport detection and inclusion
      - similar to mib modules now
      - signficinantly more re-use
    - Configuration passing
    - possible split of transport object creation to actual opening
- magfr's frustration with OID registrations and his hopefully-this-time solution proposal
- TrogL's multi-core CPU monitoring
Testing infrastructure and supported releases
- Wes' proposal from a few meetings ago
- Magfr: need a robust C-code based test system
Future Directions
Other Issues
Round Table