[Ns-developers] release update [feedback needed]

[Tom Henderson]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Current items still on the table for merging:
> 
>   - the virtual net device: gustavo went through a couple of iterations
> with tom, I lost track of the status of this project. Gustavo, could you
> merge in today ? If not, what is holding this ?
> 
>   - craig's testing: we will get something for review this week
> 
> Bugs which could be fixed for the release:
>   - 456: doxygen introspection output needs work
>   - 555, 585: dcf bugs (pending serious review)
>   - 563/565: stats patches (pending review by joe)
>   - 569: tap bridge and VMs
>   - 578: zipf variable
>   - 579, 559, 427, 426, 424: tcp bugs
>   - 539: documentation fixes
>   - other bugs I forgot ?

Mathieu,
I took a pass through the Ipv4 code and tried to list what I think are 
all of the current Ipv4 issues related to the routing and addressing code:
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/IPv4_cleanup

I filed the more prominent bugs in the tracker (591, 592) which should 
probably get dealt with for ns-3.5.  For the two bugs filed last week 
(587, 588) I created a new repo:
http://code.nsnam.org/tomh/ns-3-dev-routing
that fixes both of these, I believe, and also adds your previous patch 
to remove some static routing dependencies in the code.  I think this 
repo should be OK to push to ns-3-dev.

Many of the other issues on that wiki page can slip to the next release, 
IMO.

I think the other main area to focus on for this release is to decide 
whether to come up with some (revised) helper API for the routing code 
(which we talked about in a private email), or decide to push it to next 
release.

Tom