[Ns-developers] release update

[Tom Henderson]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> hi,
> 
> It's been a while, and we are getting closer to our original target
> release date of june 15th. 
> 
> Tom, Craig, and I had a phone conversation on wednesday to talk about
> the status of the ipv4 rework. Tom plans to merge his ns-3-ip-routing
> tree in ns-3-dev on monday. This tree appears to contain the crux of the
> API changes we wanted with a couple of implementation issues to sort
> out. Given the tight schedule, we agreed to aim for a 2-week
> stabilization and bug fixing period after the merge, and then, to freeze
> ns-3-dev around june 15th, hence, targeting june 21st or early july for
> a final release.

I've already incorporated the loopback device changes suggested by 
Mathieu, and Faker's review comments.  My plan is to finish the merge of 
Faker's bug-557 code, fix a Python bindings issue I found, and do a 
little more cleanup and doxygen before merge.  Hopefully these things 
can all be fixed by Tuesday or Wednesday.

> 
> Current items still on the table for merging:
>   - the tag rework: maybe it can make it after ip-routing is in

It would be nice to try to deal with the tag rework issue since I see a 
lot of interest in using tags.

>   - the virtual net device: gustavo, do you have interest in pushing
> this forward with the name change (TapNetDevice) suggested by tom ?
>   - other items I forgot ?

We have a lot of contributed code in the review cycle.  If anyone would 
like to push for finishing off their reviews and try to merge this 
month, please remind us of it.

- Tom