[Ns-developers] ns-3.4 release plans

[Tom Henderson]

Raj Bhattacharjea wrote:

>> From March 1st, release candidates will be released.  The bug count should
>> ideally be zero during this time, and any remaining bugs discovered will be
>> ironed out by the the 18th of March, when the final release of ns3.4 is
>> made.
> 
> I suggest we push this back to March 19.  We have adopted a policy of
> consider P1 bugs as those which are broken behavior, and will be true
> blockers which will hold up the _release candidates_;  that is, there
> will be no P1 bugs in ns-3.4-RC1 (otherwise, how is it a candidate for
> release?).  Any bugs found from beating on RC1 will be fixed and
> posted as RC2, etc.

Raj,
I'm OK with slipping the release two weeks if it means that we will get 
all of the outstanding P1 bugs in your list fixed.  However, I think we 
should carefully consider whether additional bugs that come in will keep 
slipping the release further.  There is another option to slipping, 
which is to list open bugs as "known issues", and perhaps even to later 
do a small maintenance release.  So, I would suggest that we try not to 
slip the release further unless a major issue comes up that can't be 
fixed by April 1.

- Tom