Notes20110808

• Next Meeting
  • Sept 26th
• Releases
  • 5.7.1
    • Windows patches in the patch tracker
    • pre1 after the meeting today
  • Windows binaries
    • dts12 will post new binaries later
• Administrative
  • GIT
    • any general thoughts comments and feedback?
      • nope
    • rebase vs merge
      • no consensus
    • git commit -s --author
      • use this if possible; will document
    • merging of configure -- constant conflicts
      • Options
        1. manually merge
        2. automatted autoconf/merge shell function
        3. remove configure from git, and create a makefile.git or similar script
      • hardaker will look into detecting that the configure script is the only thing changed
      • will put autoconf versioning on the next agenda
    • any general thoughts comments and feedback?
  • LTS Timing
    • Need a wiki page describing the cycles and showing examples from Notes20110523
      • Progress on dts12 will create a document?
  • Spamming of Wiki
    • tabled
• Technical
  • HR-MIB and RPM
    • follow up?
    • at some point we need to auto-detect a cache directory and stop linking against -lprm
  • numerical extend/exec output
    • dts12 has a new column to report numbers
    • will put in master, as it's a new feature
  • Architecture Wiki Pages
    • Wes has written a fair number of new pages, including Agent Architecture and others. Read them if you want to comment/complain/edit.
  • 6.0?
    • too big a topic for 5 minutes
  • systemd: How do the agent know if a passed tcp socket is for smux, agentx, ssh or snmp-over -tcp?
    • discuss on list
  • directory permissions for /var/net-snmp
    • take to list and discuss afterward
• Round Table
  • hardaker: docs, mfd, mib2c, 5.7.1, and git stuff
  • rstory: catch up
  • bvanassche: windows testing
  • dts12: windows and git