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

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:19:35PM -0700, Keith Mendoza wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Bill Fenner wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think from a project morale perspective it will be good to get a 5.7.4 out. > At the very least, it'll show the world that the project is active (or active
> again if they choose to see it that way). Is there a working list of what
> bugs/features are planned for 5.7.4; if so, can that be finalized at this
> point?

I think 5.7.4 is just a bugfix release.
5.8, of which I think the release process was initiated a while back, is
a new feature release. I know that I have added a typed value to the perl
handlers so that you won't have to change a global parameter in the agent to
get hold of the numeric oid value of an oid-type variable.

/MF

> > 
> >   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
> 
> If a release of 5.7.4 is done in the next month or so, that might also be a good time to put up the "we're moving" sign. If we can get a few people whose done this before to get together, coming up with the plan could be done in parallel with the 5.7.4 work. 
> 
> > >
> > > * 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.
> 
> I have a few questions for the core team regarding this; expect another email to the mailing list in a little bit.
> 
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> Keith (pantherse)
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