[zeromq-dev] 0.6 Release Timing and Features?

[Martin Sustrik]

Aamir,

Yes. It's quite easy actually. The problem is mostly with the plentitude 
of platforms rather than with complexity of the test.

When we are testing specific platform what we do is:

1. run basic performance test (latency, throughput)
2. run individual examples (chat, exchange, butterfly)
3. run perf tests for language extensions available on the platform (C, 
Java, Python in the case of Linux)

Actually, we have no PowerPC systems in our lab. Thus, even if you don't 
want to mess with Java and Python (we'll test that on non-ppc Linuxes 
anyway)  pts. 1 & 2 will still be useful.

In case you are interested in QA, I'll let you know when the trunk code 
is stabilised and ready for testing. Thanks in advance!

As for the telnet problem you've reported, I've created a ticket for it 
(ZMQ-225). The problem looks pretty straightforward and will be fixed 
shortly.

Martin



Aamir M wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> Regarding your request, what is involved in testing 0MQ on a given 
> platform? Is it just running some test scripts? I might be able to help 
> with QA on the following platform:
> 
> PowerPC (ppc64)
> RedHat Linux 5.2
> C++
> 
> Thanks,
> Aamir
> 
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at fastmq.com 
> <mailto:sustrik at fastmq.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     No, it's not mentioned anywhere explicitly. Basically, project is in the
>     stabilisation phase so the feature set will be the same as provided by
>     current trunk.
> 
>     New features:
> 
>     - load balancing (mechanism to distribute CPU load to multiple parallel
>     components)
>     - data dams (mechanism to offload queue content to the hard disk in the
>     periods of overload; you can offload hundreds of gigabytes, still, the
>     feature is pretty fast when compared to storing data into a database)
>     - OpenVMS port (includes C++ API, C API, Java API, Fortran API, COBOL
>     API (?), performance tests and examples.
>     - Support for Mono (as a complement to .NET support available in
>     0MQ/0.5)
>     - Improved multicast performance (up to 700Mbit/second according to
>     recent measurements).
>     - Experimental attempt at centralised management (feature allowing to
>     configure the whole distributed system from a single point)
> 
>     Estimated time to release is 2 weeks. However, this may change as quite
>     a lot of testing & QA is needed for each release.
> 
>     All: Given the large amount of operating systems and languages
>     supported, maintenance/QA is pretty time-consuming. If you can help
>     assuring that 0MQ works OK on particular operating system and/or with
>     particular programming language, you'll help would be highly
>     appreciated. Additionally, it will allow us to focus more on adding new
>     features instead of checking all the possible configurations all the
>     time. If you are willing to help, let us know!
> 
>     Thanks.
>     Martin
> 
>     Chad Harrington wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > Thanks for your hard work on 0MQ.  You have mentioned that you
>     are hard
>      > at work on the 0.6 release.  Can you tell us what the projected
>     release
>      > date and feature set will be?  My apologies if this is already
>     covered
>      > somewhere on the site and I missed it.
>      >
>      > Thank you,
>      >
>      > Chad Harrington
>      > CEO
>      > DataScaler, Inc.
>      > charrington at datascaler.com <mailto:charrington at datascaler.com>
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