DevelMeetingMar2012

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Location and Schedule

At the same hotel as SIMUTools 2012, on Saturday March 24, the day after WNS3

• The meeting site is the same site as the conference
• The meeting has no registration fees
• The meeting is open to anyone interested
• Lunch and coffee will be provided.
• The tentative schedule is 09h00-17h00 with lunch break.

Attendance

• Tommaso Pecorella (University of Florence)
• Tom Henderson
• Felipe Perrone
• George Riley
• Lalith Suresh
• Peter Barnes
• Nicola Baldo
• Pavel Boyko
• Kirill Andreev
• Dmitry Petrov (University of Jyväskylä, Magister Solutions, Finland)
• Jani Puttonen (Magister Solutions, Finland)
• Hajime Tazaki
• Mathieu Lacage
• Daniel Camara
• Alina Quereilhac
• Frederic Urbani
• James Sterbenz
• Chris Main
• Ken Renard

Remote:

• Gustavo Carneiro (remotely)
• Vedran Miletić (remotely)
• Resilinets group

Tentative Topics

Morning session: near-term release and development

• ns-3.14 and ns-3.15 release plans (Tom H)
  • Review ns-3 packaging status (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu), discuss long term support for releases
  • Code reviews
  • Bugs/patches to discuss
  • ns-3-rng status
• Review requirements, plans, and schedule for further modularization of ns-3, including moving towards realizing the app store
  • status of the 'bake' tool (http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Daniel.Camara/bake/)
  • metadata to describe modules
  • app store infrastructure
• Imposing a check-style mercurial hook for ns-3-dev (for .cc files only) (Tom H)
• Documentation: what are requirements for future merges, and how to define a realistic path to clean up and finish the current codebase
• new Jenkins CI system: what are the near-term requirements/priorities for this
  • Add clang build to build bots?
• Review Google Summer of Code plans

Afternoon session: longer-term development and project issues

• Memory leaks extermination process, see John Abraham mail: [1]
• Review some emerging products of SAFE
  • Steady state and termination detector (http://code.nsnam.org/safe/ns-3-safe/file/5acb941079b7/src/stats/model/output-analyzer.h)
  • API and architecture for data collection (slides TBD)
  • Experiment execution manager (slides TBD)
• Start/stop of nodes and net devices.
• list netiquette and FAQ. Draft here: https://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3-users-netiquette.
• Future WNS3 events
• ns-2 on www.nsnam.org