[Ns-developers] ns-3.3 Daily Bug Status for Wednesday, December 10, 2008

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Dear All,

Bugs!  Bugs!  What do we do?  Kill them!  Kill them all!

  "To the everlasting glory of the infantry
   Shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young"

You win the fabulous ns-3 daily grand door prize if you are the third reader
to understand the connections to the release implied by this quote :-)

News:
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Great progress on the list of P1 bugs has been made in the last 24 hours.

Comments:
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As you can probably tell, I can barely contain myself when I report that we
now have a reasonable path to a P1-bug-free RC on this coming Friday.  Now,
all we have got to do is to do walk the walk.  

Bugs:
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As of Wednesday night (PST), December 10, 2008, we have six P1 bugs filed
against ns-3.3-RC3:

- Bug 365 (TcpSocketImpl::Recv returns 0 without setting m_errno)

  Assigned to Raj.  The fix appears to be a little more involved than
  originally thought, but he promises a resolution before Friday's RC.

- Bug 417 (stack explosion when sending to loopback device)

  Assigned to Raj.  Mathieu has posted a patch and Raj will review
  and apply today.

- Bug 418  (RttEstimator::RetransmitTimeout can return a negative value)

  Assigned to Raj.  Mathieu has posted a patch and Raj will review
  and apply today.

- Bug 423 (TCP copy constructor wrong)

  Assigned to Raj.  A policy decision on callbacks in copy constructor
  was taken today.  Raj promises a resolution before Friday's RC.

- Bug 442 (The device trace sources in the system are not very well
documented)

  Assigned to Craig.  A documentation strategy decision was taken
  today.  Craig promises a resolution before Friday's RC.

- Bug 444 (Inernet-stack trace sources not well documented)

  Assigned to Craig.  A documentation strategy decision was taken
  today.  Craig promises a resolution before Friday's RC.

Progress / Closed Bugs:
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230 (Simulator::Now() Updating and Simulator::Stop()) -- Fixed
397 (Custom WifiModes apparently not possible in infrastructure mode) --
Deferred  
405 (wifi log messages improvements) -- Fixed
419 (*Helper::SetAttribute* methods sometimes painful to use) -- Deferred
428 (segfault in tcp-nsc-lfn) -- Reassinged as build issue, deferred
433 (DataRate: kBps and kB/s have wrong multipliers) -- Fixed
435 (yans wifi helper file names not consistent) -- Fixed
436 (class MatchContainer lacks Doxygen) -- Fixed
440 (Tutorial example third.cc no longer compiles, tutorial obsolete) --
Fixed
441 (double Time::GetSeconds() precision or rounding issue) -- Fixed

New Bugs:
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None.

Next Steps:
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The release of ns-3.3-RC4 is currently planned for Friday, December 12,
2008.
The final release of ns-3.3 is currently planned for Wednesday, December 17,
2008.

Regards,

-- Craig