[Nut-upsdev] Roadmap to 2.7.3

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Charles, Baruch and NUT developers,

2015-03-05 17:06 GMT+01:00 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:

> For reference: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/10
>
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Baruch Even <baruch at ev-en.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is one issue that I would consider as a major issue and not fixed
> yet. It is the use of wall time for scheduling ups polls instead of a
> monotonic clock source. I provided a (partial) patch in the past and I
> believe there was some work on it.
> >
> > The bug manifests itself as a stop of monitoring with no alarm when the
> clock is moved backwards in time.
> >
> > Please consider adding this to the release.
>
> Hi Baruch,
>
> What seems to have happened is that it was assigned to an Eaton
> contractor, and it got tangled up in a C++ unit test framework branch that
> did not get fully merged before the contract apparently ended. It was also
> tagged in GitHub with the "2.8" milestone, probably with the understanding
> that there would be a few more 2.7.x incremental releases in the mean time.
>

I staffed Vasek (Vaclav Krpec, Eaton employee at that time) on a more
advanced version of the Monothonic implementation [1].
However, in the course of checking the code, prior to merging, I had to
stop at ~ 95+ %, since I uncovered some non trivial issues with the time
stability of the result.
The code was left as is since then, and as mentioned by Charles, I affected
that to milestone 2.8.
That goes back ~ 2 years ago, so I would need to refresh myself on this.
However, still not for the short run, sorry Baruch!


> The issue list I mentioned for 2.7.3 is composed of two categories: small
> patches with limited impact, and a larger issue that would affect a lot of
> people (the NSS bug). While I think that monotonic clocks are the right
> solution for polling timers in the long term, I would be surprised if a lot
> of NUT installations worry about time going backwards, since that has big
> implications for log traceability.
>
> I am prepared to suggest releasing 2.7.3 with the NSS bug intact, since it
> fails safe (although useless) and can be worked around with configuration
> (run upsd in foreground). Documenting the handling of non-monotonic time as
> a known bug (with a simple patch tested on Linux) is perhaps not
> equivalent, but given the developer resource constraints we have had over
> the past year, I think it is not out of the question.
>

agreed.
let's start with simple things, and release 2.7.3.
Then consider some more point releases to relaunch the project activity.

thanks and cheers,
Arno
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[1] https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/10
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