Re: Summary of meeting between NET-SNMP devs and ICEI

I'm sorry that I wasn't available for this meeting.  I think one important
pain point is the overhead of doing releases - 5.7.3 was years ago and
there are very useful fixes in the 5.7 branch; why can't we just say "now's
a good time for 5.7.4 and if we don't get it right then we can release
5.7.5 soon"?  To be fair, I've never driven a net-snmp release so I don't
know what's involved.

  Bill


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Ian Bruene <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This morning we (Keith, Ian) met with an assortment of the NET-SNMP
> developers / contributors (primarily Bart Van Assche) to discuss how we
> could best help the project. The meeting went well, at least form our
> perspective.
>
> The pain points we identified were:
>
> * bug mountain
>
> * help users on the mailing list
>
> * patch / MR handling process
>
> * move out of SourceForge
>
> * clean up headers in /include/net-snmp/system/ which are a mess and have
> import loops
>
> * #ifdef hell / too many supported configurations
>
> Keith is currently focused on streamlining the process of handling merge
> requests, which will make it easier to handle the bug mountain. I will
> probably be focusing on the headers for now in hopes that it will make
> other processes easier as well. We can help on the repo move whenever y'all
> are ready to pull the trigger on that.
>
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