Revision as of 17:45, 21 October 2017

This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.28. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release status

ns-3.28 is undergoing initial planning (for maintainers to set the goals).

Release goals

Broad goals

Of course, resolving all confirmed issues in our tracker is a priority. Here are a few more things we'd like to accomplish this cycle, and the names of people who volunteer to work on the issue.

• Improve (automate) the Python bindings scanning process using CastXML (Tom Henderson, Ankit Deepak)
  • https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2451#c22

• Make ns-3 compatible with Windows Visual Studio (Robert Ammon)
  • Robert Ammon has been working hard on this and has material for review now: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2726

• Review and merge all of the summer project code (GSoC and SOCIS) (various project mentors)
  • See this wiki page for links

• Get to zero Doxygen warnings (Robert Ammon, Tom Henderson)
  • We are close; additional patches to merge (provided by Robert) are at: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=938

• Launch the ns-3 app store (Tom Henderson, Abhijith Anilkumar)
  • Beta site: http://ns-apps.ee.washington.edu

Wifi

• Scanning support (Tom Henderson)
  • https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2399

• Improve block ack robustness (Tom Henderson and Sebastien Deronne)
  • https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2470

• PCF support (Sebastien Deronne)

Python bindings

Further automate the generation of bindings using CastXML, as discussed here: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2451#c22