Notes20100222

Net-SNMP Meeting
2010-02-22

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

Date and Time: 2010-02-22 20:00 UTC

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
    • more config changes described to transports passing "up" an identifier to load for read_config
      • ie, snmpget -G noc ... localhost ... would load localhost.conf followed by noc.conf in the [snmp] contexts
  • magfr's frustration with OID registrations and his hopefully-this-time solution proposal
    • no progress
  • TrogL's multi-core CPU monitoring
    • not available today
• Testing infrastructure and supported releases
  • Wes' proposal from a few meetings ago
    • hopefully a proposal in march
    • unit and API tests
    • Magfr: need a robust C-code based test system
  • Dropping MSVC 6.0 -- bartvanassche
    • agreed
• Future Directions
• Other Issues
• Round Table
  • Wes: transports, TLS, ISMS, hopefully a testing harness