Notes20110321
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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
- pre1 done
- 5.4
- 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
- 5.5.1
- 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).
- standardizing "please write to the list" notes? Possibly with a new wiki page with a longer explanation?
- 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
- Dave got helpful hints from Alex
- 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
- slow migration proposed last time ; community split between which is better.
- Testing
- Round Table
- Wes: scheduled delivery of data via notifications
- dts12: releases (5.3.4 and 5.4.4)
