[Box Backup-dev] Making a new release

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Ben Summers wrote:

> We've stalled again. Everyone apart from Chris that is, who's storming 
> ahead.

Storming in a teacup, maybe :-)

> * Chris to finish off whatever he's doing

All I need to do now, as far as I know, is:

* Track down and fix the crash that Torsten Boob is seeing with my tree.

* Fix security on the named pipe on Win32 (add new options to specify a
   user and group that should own the pipe).

* Merge the last of my changes, which are all to test/bbackupd if I
   remember rightly.

Anyone else have any opinions on "must haves" for 0.11?

> * Ask people to test. (as has previously been said, Chris' code is
>   decent enough!)

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment!

> What's the current state of the test suite? I'm assuming it's still nice 
> and strong.

I hope so, I have been adding tests for almost every new feature and 
reported bug. I still have to merge the bbackupd tests. All tests pass on 
Win32, which is everything except symlinks and Unix sockets, I think.

> I will try to find some time to do the review and some testing on 
> OpenBSD and Solaris. Other eyes on the code would be good too, 
> volunteers?

I can test (i.e. run the unit tests) on several platforms courtesy of 
Sourceforge's compile farm (or the bits of it that happen to be up and 
running at the moment :-)

There is still a problem with running a server on MacOS X (and Darwin), 
which I believe was in 0.10 as well (i.e. not all tests pass on this 
platform, probably due to a bug in the server). Should we consider this a 
blocker for 0.11 release? If so, I can devote some more time to 
investigating and fixing it.

Cheers, Chris.
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