<div dir="ltr">I'm also interested in the status of the latest NTP Internet Drafts. Are they solid enough for implementation?</div><span>
</span><p dir="ltr">I'm inclined to say yes to the MacOS patches, but I want to hear the discussion, and read the patches myself.</p><p dir="ltr">..m</p><span>
</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 4, 2017, 2:54 PM Eric S. Raymond via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org" target="_blank">devel@ntpsec.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Apologies to all for having been rather invisible recently. What<br>
happened was I got an emergency call for help from a project we rely on -<br>
GNUPLOT. (Perhaps not everyone knows this is the graphics engine we use<br>
in ntpviz, which is one of our sexier new features.)<br>
<br>
It seems that SourceForge, where GNUPLOT is hosted, is soon to shut<br>
down CVS service (I don't remember the drop-dead date but I think it's<br>
in November). The GNUPLOT guys decided they needed a git conversion<br>
*immediately*, and they did, and I was the logical person to turn to.<br>
<br>
Which would have been no big deal except that CVS conversions are<br>
horrible time- and attention-sinks. This one was only moderately<br>
nasty as such things go, but that was enough to eat my bandwidth<br>
for two weeks. Anyway, happy ending - GNUPLOT will not die and<br>
ntpviz still has a back end.<br>
<br>
We have some loose ends from 1.0 to clean up. I took care of a few<br>
of them today; unpeer needed to be upgunned so it can take a type/unit<br>
pair rather than a magic IP address, and there was a pending dead-code<br>
removal. I've also removed some obsolete to-dos.<br>
<br>
Here's what I see as the top of the near-term agenda:<br>
<br>
* Fred and Gary need to have, and resolve, their argument about what to<br>
do to the build recipe around Python library installation. For<br>
concreteness, this should probably start with a proposed patch from<br>
Fred.<br>
<br>
* There are couple of Mac-support merge requests pending from<br>
Fred. Whether to take them is not a technical question but a<br>
policy one, how hardnosed we're going to be abour our C99/POSIX<br>
baseline. In view of our adoption strategy, are older versions<br>
if Mac OS X important enough to make an exception? Discuss;<br>
once the pros and cons have been laid out we'll want a ukase<br>
from Mark.<br>
<br>
* I would like us to plan on a short-cycle 1.1, to land early January,<br>
with SNMP support as the big new feature. Ian: is this a realistic<br>
timeframe? Is there any support you're not getting that you'll need<br>
to get this done.<br>
<br>
Senior devs: please chime in with any goals you think we ought to<br>
pursue for 1.1.<br>
<br>
I've got a really big one that's not going to get done in one release<br>
cycle, but which I consider worth some thought beginning now.<br>
--<br>
<a href="<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/</a>">Eric S. Raymond</a><br>
<br>
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can<br>
bribe the people with their own money.<br>
-- Alexis de Tocqueville<br>
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</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><p dir="ltr">Mark Atwood<br>
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