Notes20111219

• Next Date
  • Jan 16
• Releases
  • What's next?
    • 5.5/5.6 simultaneous starting in January
    • 5.7 after that
• Administrative
  • Git
    • CHANGES/NEWS needs to be generated -- Wes will try to look into it
  • autoconf and replacing it
  • 6.0 and what should go into it
  • Google SOC
    • Ideas:
      • red/black tree for containers
      • multi-threading. EG optional threading in the network layer moving io to its own thread
        • needs a strong regression testing suite, including ideally a race-detector
        • integration with an external event loop, eg libevent
        • non-blocking v3 and agentx probes
      • discuss again in January
• Technical
  • Secondary address support for Linux in IP-MIB is broken.
    • long discussion... something is wrong and different kernels support adding addresses to existing interfaces in different ways.
      • is fedora broken by forcing alias addressing?
  • Wiki captcha is broken - "socket closed".
    • wes will check
  • udp
    • udp_recvfrom/sendto removal
      • remove these? Hopefully they're not widely used?
      • dts12 failed to find google searches for them
    • udpbase_send/recv to ipv4
  • solaris 11 -- trogl
    • released solaris 11 with net-snmp 5.4.1
    • write up a faq article stating they did this and propose upgrade/drop in replacements for them
• Roundtable
  • rstory: maintenance mode
  • hardaker: distracted