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

On 04/12/18 08:31, Ian Bruene 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.

Should a list of to-do items be added to the Net-SNMP wiki?

Also, how about adding the following item to the above list: getting rid 
of 'makedepend' for generating dependency files. Makedepend is 
considered deprecated and does not work properly on modern systems. Any 
build system that supports dependency generation is a possible 
alternative (automake, cmake, ...). See also 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makedepend and 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10021.

Bart.

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