Re: Upcoming feature freeze

2017-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Frank Nicholas : > What about GPSd/NTPSec systems that do not support SHM as required > by GPSd/NTPSec? (Are there any? macOS? Others?) They will usually be able to use NMEA + PPS. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Please consider contributing to my Patreon page at

Re: Upcoming feature freeze

2017-08-23 Thread Frank Nicholas via devel
On Aug 23, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > > #55: ntpd refclock GPSD_JSON just stops working. > > I am unhappy with this driver. I believe - as this bug demonstrates - > that it's too crappy to ship if we want to establish and maintain a > reputation for trouble-free opera

Re: Upcoming feature freeze

2017-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Sanjeev Gupta : > I would dearly love to see #204 (/etc/ntp.d) be included in 1.0. Some version of /etc/ntp.d support will definitely be there. The question is whether it will be the version that's there, or whether someone will persuade me that they have a better idea. -- http:/

Re: Upcoming feature freeze

2017-08-23 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
Hi, I would dearly love to see #204 (/etc/ntp.d) be included in 1.0. As a SysAdm, I typically read the new features list rarely. If it does not land in 1.0 (and pacakge managers and I do not start using it then), it may never get used. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com

Upcoming feature freeze

2017-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Our planned ship date for 1.0 is 28 September. We'll feature-freeze sooner than that - not sure when yet but somewhere in the ballpark of 7-14 September seems likely. We're down to 7 issues on the tracker. Feature freeze has implications for the two that are RFEs, and for one other. Here they ar