[Ns-developers] ns-3.4 : Release Procedure Winding Down

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org> wrote:
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Raj Bhattacharjea [mailto:raj.b at gatech.edu]
>>Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 01:28 PM
>>To: ns-developers at ISI.EDU
>>Subject: [Ns-developers] ns-3.4 : Release Procedure Winding Down
>>
>>There have been no changes checked in since RC3 landed on Friday;
>>therefore, I am suggesting that we do NOT release an RC today!  This
>>is mostly good, since it means that ns-3.4 is converging and has been
>>stable for 3 days.
>>
>>To keep everyone up to speed, the 3 P1 bugs (TCP close related) have
>>been reduced in priority, meaning that they will no longer block the
>>release.  I think it is best to make the release of ns-3.4 on the
>>promised date of April 1, without fixing these bugs.
>>
>>The current work in progress is mostly related to documenting the
>>changes between ns-3.3 and ns-3.4; things like CHANGES.html and the
>>release notes are being updated.  Let's keep ns-3-dev stable during
>>the process, i.e. NO code check-ins to ns-3-dev until Wednesday.
>>Please maintain your check-ins locally, or in a private repo posted on
>>the code server.
>
> Raj, given that you are planning to update some things, I think it would be helpful to put out another release candidate that is final from your perspective.  Are there going to be any more code checkins on your part?  Are you going to socialize release notes and CHANGES.html beforehand?
>

RC3 is complete as far as code is concerned, from my perspective.  I
don't plan on making making any other fixes to ns-3-dev until after
the release.  This means punting on TCP fixes and packaging George's
animator.  I will put some effort into pointing people to this code
and other contributions via the contrib page on the wiki.

I got the sense from talking with George that everyone was comfortable
with making the release in its current state; if I am mistaken,
please, let me know about any reservations with releasing the current
ns-3-dev as ns-3.4

The only thing that has changed since RC3 is documentation, i.e. the
release notes and changes have been updated, thanks to Craig.  If
people wish to comment on them, the files can be found here:
http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-dev/raw-file/9da5383b0c87/CHANGES.html
http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-dev/raw-file/9da5383b0c87/RELEASE_NOTES

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