Notes20110425

Agenda

• Next Meeting
  • May 23rd is chosen
• Releases
  • 5.3.4
  • 5.4.4
    • pre2 still due out, will get out this week
  • 5.7
    • pre1 will go out late next week
    • trunk test 115 is broken
    • bvanassche will try and get win32 patches in for new standard mibs done
  • Branch Life Times
    • Policy should have been discussed on the list by now
      • How long to keep older versions up to date, given a faster release cycle
      • every other branch is LTS?
      • back porting stable features to LTS branches
    • Long Term Support (LTS)
      • 5.4 and 5.7 are nominated for long-term and agreed upon
        • Dave notes 5.4 came out in 2006.
      • indecision on how long LTS releases should stay around
      • resources are the real constraint: people, hardware and bug tracking make LTS support hard
      • will bring back to a future meeting to continue discussion
• Administrative
  • standardizing "please write to the list" notes? Possibly with a new wiki page with a longer explanation?
    • Wes should write up a wiki page.
    • Wes has not done so as of yet
  • SVN vs GIT
    • Should be deciding this month about whether to switch
    • Good material on a good work flow process is in gitworkflows(7)
    • A very good diagram depicting a slightly different model
    • What to do with the historic tags/branches from SVN?
    • Release script: Wes promises to update it
    • It is a mental hurdle to switch, so those promoting git will help to help those less familiar
    • Need to look at the web front end to ensure it displays things properly
      • a deal breaker for dts12
    • The vote: on a scale of -1 to 1, 1 being convert to git and -1 being fully against....
      • hardaker: 1
      • magfr: .1
      • rstory: 1
      • dts12: Decent web interface: 0.8 - Crap web interface: -0.3
      • bvanassche: 1
    • '''Will convert in roughly a month; after 5.[34].4 are out and before 5.7
• Technical
  • IETF Notes from March IETF
    • The EMAN working group is working on energy management (battery, power, etc)
    • HOST-RESOURCES-MIB update interest, send notes of broken things in the MIB to Wes.
  • Windows Builds
    • Dave hopefully has windows working? Needs wiki post about doing it.
• Round Table
  • hardaker: enhanced notification support for the agent, converting to git, and 5.7
  • dts12: 5.[34] releases and windows builds.