[Ns-developers] ns-2 release plans: call for items

[Tom Henderson]

Tom Henderson wrote:
> It's been about 6 months since we released ns-2.33.  I would like to 
> make a new release sometime soon, to address at least these issues:
> 
> 1) the current allinone tarball does not seem to build on the 
> forthcoming Ubuntu 8.10 release, and there appear to be some 
> compatibility problems with Tcl/Tk 8.5 and 8.6 packages

The current (ns-2.33) allinone package does work on Ubuntu 8.10; I put 
some notes on package requirements in the wiki.

> 
> 2) there have been a number of bug fixes proposed (AODV, various 802.11 
> fixes)
> 
> 3) new features:
>  - Michele Weigle is currently checking in Tmix
>  - Sidney Doria has proposed Puma multicast additions
>  - Marcello Caleffi has offered some DHT and AOMDV code
> 
> If people plan to either propose new items for merging to ns-2, other 
> than the above, or to fix specific bugs, please respond to this message 
> so I can consider some kind of a schedule for putting together a release.
> 
> If anyone would like to help with the ns-2 release process going 
> forward, or to maintain any existing models, please contact me off list.
> 
> - Tom
> 


Based on the responses gathered, I've put together the following 
checklist for a release:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Roadmap#Release_schedule

I'll post a release candidate once we work through all of the above items.

- Tom