[LibreQoS] a milestone, of sorts

[Dave Taht]

Today, we hit 50% closed bugs for the v1.4 release cycle. My
congratulations to everyone for pitching in, coding, testing, and
breaking things, as things are looking  a great deal more stable *and
robust* than they were only a week or two ago. I am always amazed at
herbert's productivity, and interduo's ability to break things, and at
the NZ teams´ willingness to test in production stuff that merely
compiles.

Tomorrow (thursday) at 1PM PST we have a meeting to discuss the state
of the project. Presently we have not picked a technology (most of our
work has moved to our #libreqos:matrix.org chat room) to have that in,
I used to use my public galene server.

So the cup is half full now. Or as I in general, tend to channel
eyore, half empty. Of the remaining 28 bugs, many are in states of
completion in the 80-99.99% range. Some are kind of complex and
ideally the non-done bit, could get pulled out, and re-bugged (is that
a word?). Others are overly vague. Others can just be punted to the
next release. The schedule for the next release has already been
slipped to march 31st, rather than March 7th. There seems to be some
architectural rework needed as well, which is something that often
happens at this stage of the project, where going forward, requires a
step or two back.

If half the folk on this list could review the bottom half up, and the
other half, top half down, of what remains, we could meet in the
middle:

https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/milestone/1

And for those of you that have not been tracking progress so far, please see:

https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/milestone/1?closed=1

And for those of you here that had a grand dream of THE KILLER FEATURE
that will bring all ISPs more sleep and profits, and the devteam a
paycheck... we have punted a great deal of stuff already to the v1.5
release:

https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/milestone/3

or a complete blocker for their adoption of v1.4... and have not
communicated what it is - More suggestions for that or future
milestones welcomed on this list, or on the github, or via the chat
room.

I would love a definition of the killer feature(s) for this release
that works. Herbert´s new bifrost bridge in particular is benching out
at 30% or more faster than the original code.

Donations are being accepted on our github sponsors page, if you or
some org you know of, is willing to pitch in, as we slog forward. We
are in need of a decent javascript programmer in particular, and at
least one more python and rust programmer as well, if you know anyone.
We are also on a quest to find someone(s) that can help move some high
speed routines to c and rtnetlink.



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Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC