[Xorp-hackers] Patches integrated; call for testers

[Bruce Simpson]

Hi all,

I've integrated, as far as possible, any user-contributed patches 
submitted to the xorp-hackers@ mailing list since XORP 1.6 was released. 
I will try to make a pass over the company Bugzilla for any low-hanging 
fruit.

If you have patches, now is a good time to air them out for review and 
incorporation. We would like to roll a 1.7-RC, however, we will be more 
dependent on user contribution than before, as the XORP, Inc. company 
resources are focused on delivering product for the moment.

It would be my hope in future that we can see more participation from 
the company developers in this forum, however, this will only be 
possible if they are able to deliver and launch commercial product.

In order to do this, we will probably have to call a code freeze some 
time this month. One of the things I want to get started on is 
integrating Boost and Thrift into the main code base.

It's difficult with only one hand on deck (myself) on the community 
branch to do this, whilst we have changes in-flight, and whilst the code 
is a moving target. To minimize churn, I tend to fork feature branches 
and re-incorporate them further on; both the Windows port, and OLSR 
code, were developed in this way.

I hope you can appreciate that the time I can spend on email support is 
limited, and that it is on a best-effort basis.

thanks,
BMS