[Babel-users] Please test master

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I also discussed issues with tim (cc'd) was having on his raspberri pi
> (arm) based version. He seems to have got a much stabler result after
> reverting to 1.7.1.

Correct.  In 1.7.1, babeld got more stable and less reactive.  We tweaked
the logic again in 1.8.0 to make it more reactive again.

Tuning reactivity vs. stability is difficult, since we're hoping to have
good results in a wide variety of networks.

> What I observed while watching his version "break" was that the metrics
> would inflate a little bit, 2-3 times, and then go unreachable, even
> with other valid alternate routes present. That was on kernel ? and
> kernel ?.

? indeed.

-- Juliusz