Hi Maria, On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
Toke's first two patches are ready for merging, but the third (metric smoothing) is contested since it conflicts with my route selection patch in its current form and if adapted it conflicts with my scalability goals for babel instead. Possibly premature optimization admittedly ;)
We generally thought that the patches were still kinda work in progress, sorry if our non-responsivity could be interpreted as negligence.
No worries, I figured that's what was going on.
That being said since RTT metric is a new feature anyway I would prefer we just go with my route damping approach, mark RTT as experimental and get some more wider testing through a released version.
That looks like a feasible way to go. Shall we then just try to merge these patches as they have been sent to the list?
I have some more changes to make to the dampening patch, but if we're in agreement that this direction is the way to go I'll get a v1 out ASAP. You can merge Toke's patches independently of that though. RTT without smoothing is still useful :)
Lastly my v5 route selection patch should also be ready, all threads of discussion should be resolved and there are no known bugs. However I've not received any testing reports, hint, hint peeps °>°
OK, will look at it as well. Please send me an owl, a pigeon or another avian carrier compatible with RFC 1149 if we don't react in a reasonable time (est. a fortnight).
I'm afraid quality-of-life concerns for the carriers involved prevent this as a method of delivery. Perhaps once RFC 7511 is more widely deployed? I'd be open to sending a reminder mail over conflcit-free silica transmission line though :D Chirp-chirp, --Daniel