[Ns-developers] ns-3.3 Release Status

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Hi all,

It is now November 17.  We are a week in to the maintenance phase of ns-3.3
right now.  You may be saying to yourself, "that's nice," but this is a
friendly reminder that the maintenance phase is going to end on November
30th; and we are going into code-freeze and will release ns-3.3-RC1 on
December 1.

That means there are only nine working days left (seven in the U.S. due to
the Thanksgiving holiday) to work through our considerable 36-bug-long
ns-3.3 P2 bug list.  As soon as Raj releases ns-3.2.1 (this coming
Wednesday), all of the P2 bugs in the tracker will magically become P1 bugs
for ns-3.3 and will therefore be blockers for the release.  We really need
to get serious about cleaning these puppies out.

I spent some time with Tom this morning going through the list.  I put the
current list of (soon to be) P1 bugs for ns-3.3 on the release wiki
(http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.3).  Please take a look.  If you
see your name in "The Hot List" you will need to address "your" bugs.  In
some cases, the answer may be to document the problem and mark the bug
WONTFIX (e.g., 64-bit valgrinding).  In some cases, we just need to review
and apply patches; but for a lot of these, we are going to need to get real
fixes in place in the next two weeks.  Some of these bugs are non-trivial.
We are going to need everyone's help in pushing things forward if we are
going to get to zero bugs by November 30.

Tom is going to want to review the list in the upcoming chat (and I believe
will send out the list under separate cover).  I want to make sure all of
the maintainers are aware of the bugs and the fact that a deadline is fast
approaching.

Regards,

-- Craig