[Ns-developers] ns-3.4 Daily Status for Thursday, March 26, 2009

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

Dear All,

Here is your daily update regarding the upcoming release.  The bulk
of the information will be kept up-to-date here:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.4

I will keep emailing out this link along with status changes.

News:
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A release candidate was scheduled for today, but I am seeing local
regression failure and am therefore unable to produce a release
candidate.  I am going to wait to see if the nightly regression tests
pass, and if so, investigate more andmake the release candidate
Friday morning, EDT.

I believe we are on course to making the release schedule; the slated date
is April 1st.

Bugs:
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There are now 6 P1 bugs in the tracker, and 4 lower priority P2 bugs.

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.4#Open_Blockers

Three of the remaining involve the Cygwin build; these are (according to Craig)
non-fatal errors for the build, i.e. ns-3.4 builds on Cygwin, BUT it spits out
error messages. I think we could bump these down to P2 (i.e. they won't block
the release and we can note in the release notes that there is a non-fatal issue
in Cygwin).

The three TCP bugs are still P1, and being worked on through the RC process.
As of yet, I still do not believe these will cause the release to slip.

Progress / Closed Bugs:
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One P2 bug regarding the tap bridge and virtual machines was closed out
since the last email (bug 520).

New Bugs:
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A P2 bug has been filed.  It is an enhancement to Wifi:
http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=531

Next Steps:
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Since RC3 has slipped today, the plan is to release it tomorrow,
pending fixing the
regression issue.
A full schedule of upcoming milestones can be found here:
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.4#The_ns-3.4_Release_Schedule

The TCP bugs probably need to be resolved before the final release can
be made.
Thanks everyone!

-- 
Raj Bhattacharjea
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate
Systems Analyst
404.894.2955