Re: [naviserver-devel] status update

[Gustaf N. <ne...@wu...>]

Dear all,

after doing some more polishing (static analyzers, more valgrind test) 
and updating NEWS,
i've today tagged NaviServer and the modules mentioned below with 
naviserver-4.99.5 on bitbucket
and uploaded new tar files to sourceforge.

all the best
-gustaf neumann

Am 06.05.13 00:12, schrieb Gustaf Neumann:
> Am 03.05.13 13:52, schrieb Bernhard van Woerden:
>> My feeble attempt at this is a pull request on bitbucket.
>>
>> Hope this is of some use.
> Bernhard, many thanks, this was a great help. I've made yet
> another iteration over the NEWS file and tried to group changes
> in the top section.
>
> How should we do packaging?
> We have at least the following components with changes
>   - naviserver
>   - nsssl
>   - nsstats
>   - nsdbpg
>   - nssmtpd
>   - nsauthpam
> where the first four have larger changes. Any other
> good options other than
>   - naviserver
>   - naviserver-nsssl
>   ...?
>
> Should we mention changes from the drivers/packages
> as well in the NEWS file?
>
> Any objections to use the same tag on bitbucket for these packages
> to denote compatibility?
>
> -gustaf
>
>
>> Gustaf has been very industrious.
>>
>> -Bernhard
>>
>> On 29 April 2013 18:33, Bernhard van Woerden <ber...@qc... 
>> <mailto:ber...@qc...>> wrote:
>>
>>     ok, I'll have a go. I really need to read the diff for each
>>     commit so it will take me a day or 2 to put together a draft
>>     version.
>>
>>     - Bernhard
>>
>>
>>     On 29 April 2013 10:41, Gustaf Neumann <ne...@wu...
>>     <mailto:ne...@wu...>> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Bernhard,
>>
>>         Would be great, if you could help here. Releasing a 4.99.5
>>         version soon and leaving further cleanup and
>>         documentation improvements for a 5.0 release sounds
>>         good to me. The biggest task for 4.99.5 is to provide a
>>         "cooked version" of the changlog for the NEWS file.
>>         Since the tagging of 4.99.4 more than 150 commits
>>         went in.... time flies like an arrow. I hope to be able to
>>         do this until the end of the week.
>>
>>         -gustaf neumann
>>
>>
>>         On 25.04.13 10:38, Bernhard van Woerden wrote:
>>>         Thanks Gustaf,
>>>
>>>         Do you plan to tag a new release ?
>>>         We want to put together Debian packages and it would be nice
>>>         to reference a release with changes since 4.99.1
>>>
>>>         Regards
>>>         Bernhard
>>>
>>>         On 25 April 2013 09:02, Gustaf Neumann <ne...@wu...
>>>         <mailto:ne...@wu...>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Dear naviservlers,
>>>
>>>             a short update on the changes in the tip version of
>>>             Naviserver
>>>             and some modules on bitbucket:
>>>
>>>             - i've not made the big-cleanup of unused functions, but
>>>               marked several as deprecated. The server reports
>>>               now in the error.log when deprecated (C- or
>>>               Tcl-implemented) functions are used.
>>>
>>>             - the introspection interface for per-server and per-pool
>>>               reporting is implemented and works nicely (used e.g. in
>>>               the updated nsstats.tcl or in my set of munin plugins).
>>>               The old interface (which was not virtual-server and
>>>               pool-aware) is marked as deprecated.
>>>
>>>             - i've moved several locks from global mutexes on all
>>>               pools to muxtes per pool where appropriate to further
>>>               improve scalability (most people won't notice)
>>>
>>>             - nsdbpg: i've updated the interface of nsdbpg from
>>>               the old string based interface to Tcl_Objs and
>>>             implemented
>>>               for the provided SQL statements a new Tcl_Obj type named
>>>               " parsedSQL", which can reduce string copying and the
>>>               parsing of SQL statements for the bind-var emulation
>>>               significantly. When the Tcl_Obj is preserved, the
>>>               SQL statement is processed once (at the first call)
>>>               and the resulting C structures are preserved in the
>>>               internal representation of the Tcl_Obj. In later calls,
>>>               the internal representation of the parsed SQL statement
>>>               can be reused without overhead.
>>>
>>>             - I am updating the documentation whenever i step over
>>>               some documentation problems, so it is improving, but
>>>               there is still a log way to go.
>>>
>>>             When downloading the tip version of naviserver, please
>>>             get also nsdbpg/nsssl/nsstats when you use these modules.
>>>
>>>             We are using the tip version of naviserver and the modules
>>>             in production since a while. I think, we saw the last crash
>>>             last year in october or so.
>>>
>>>             best regards
>>>             -gustaf neumann
>>>
>>
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