Comments on: Development update

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:45:35 +0000

The PPTP limitation is a limitation, not a bug. It’s that way by design in the underlying software.

Ermal has been working on something to resolve that issue, not sure at this point if it will be resolved or not.

By: Freax

Freax — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:11:37 +0000

Hi.

I think is very important to 1.3 or 1.2.1 to solve the bug related to http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_the_limitations_of_PPTP_in_pfSense%3F or integrate a working Frickin package in PFSense.

Continue the good work.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:56:50 +0000

Southman: As soon as the build system is working again, yeah. We pulled all the binaries out of CVS for a number of reasons, and that necessitated over 500 commits in the past week. It’ll be much better to not keep binaries in release code branches (for one, it means pfSense branches won’t be tied to FreeBSD branches anymore), and is something we have wanted to do for a while, but it’s created a lot of (expected) fallout. As a whole, we have 60-70 man hours into this alone in the past week, and it’s not quite done yet.

Dave: Err… All the entries are dated. “This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 1:50 am”

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:37:27 +0000

It would be nice to see a publish date on an article like this, so that we know how current it is. The comments are dated, but not the original post.

By: Southman

Southman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:10:47 +0000

Are we close to getting a look at 1.3 yet?

By: RB

RB — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:53:15 +0000

REALLY looking forward to a git transition. The existing CVS has been a hugely limiting factor in at least my involvement. I’m sure there’ll be a few bumps, but really believe it’s the right direction – way to go!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:45:28 +0000

tldstyl3: sorry, second. Moderator delay.

Git will be very nice for a number of reasons, distributed development being one of them. It also gives us a means of letting anyone create their own branches and contributing code, which we may or may not ever accept into the release distribution which will be restricted to our long time contributors. Frequently people start on something and do not finish it for whatever reason, this will prevent that work from getting lost if someone wants to come along later and finish it. It also eliminates another problem we’ve had for a long time – half finished code in release branches. We want to keep our release branches restricted to only finished work, the release tree should never be broken. That’s essentially impossible to do now because of the limitations of CVS.

Gitorious is much nicer than cvsweb, and Redmine is vastly better than cvstrac, so it will really offer some significant improvements not just for developers but the community as a whole.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:16:06 +0000

Looking forward to seeing your source code management system migrate from CVS to GIT! GIT really works well for distributed development.

Also looking forward to snapshots of the 1.2 and 1.3 branches.

Thanks for all the great work!

By: tldstyl3

tldstyl3 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:14:57 +0000

Great news!!!

Looking forward to 1.3

Counting the days to its release….

btw
First!

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:55:20 +0000

Thanks for the news update & good luck with your server and git migrations!
And don’t forget to enjoy the summer…