Re: How about NessusClient 1.2-beta1 release?

On Thursday 22 February 2007 11:12, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > I am aware of these issues. Those are the ones that are on my list.
> > I would never release this status as "release candidate" - obviouly.
> > For me a beta is an intermediate state more or less close (ie feature
> > complete) to the next release. Known bugs are likely present.
> > Finding unknown early is a good thing.
>
> It is not feature complete : there are serious regressions in this
> branch which may
> cause scans contents to be lost.

I am using this version for a couple of month now and the only
situation where I lost scan contents was in situation where
memory consumption exceeded available memory. This is on my
list, but if you switch off the plugin caches in the preferences,
the behaviour should not differ from NessusClient 1.0.
Hm, maybe the caches should better be off by default?

If you lost information in a situation other than extreme memory consumptio=
n,
I'd be very interested in details.

> Once this version is on par with 1.0 we may consider a beta release,
> but at this point it is way too premature.

AFAICS, I am the only one to work towards maturity status.
Because I can only spend about three hours of my spare time per week,
it will take about a year to get all remaining issues done.
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I am willing to motivate others to help to get things done faster.
But it is a major blocker that no one has the opportunity to get involved
with CVS HEAD. I'd appreciate any proposal how to improve this.

BTW: My current rough plan is:
=2D finish upgrade to GTK 2.4 ie. replace any deprecated methods.
=2D doing code review during this.
=2D Optimize widget/window sizes
=2D introduce some hashing regarding plugin data in order to decrease
  memory consumption for cashing mode.
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Best

	Jan
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Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner                                   Intevation GmbH
Amtsgericht Osnabr=FCck, HR B 18998             http://www.intevation.de/
Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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