It’s
sometimes difficult to maintain an overview over what issues matter most
to the CFEngine community. Unfortunately our bug tracker, Redmine, has
very poor support for letting the developers know what issues are
important to the users, and prioritize according to this. So lately we
have been looking into using the watcher count as a way to measure
interest in issues. For clarity the watcher count is the number of
people who have pressed the “Watch” button on a Redmine issue. Redmine
doesn’t have built in support for filtering according to watcher count,
but we have built our own custom query tool to get this information. So
we hereby encourage the community to press “Watch” on all the issues
that are important to them! We can of course not guarantee that all
issues with many watchers will be resolved, but it certainly increases
the odds that the particular issue makes it towards the top of the list.
For technical reasons we can’t publish our query, but below is a sneak
peek at the current list: The top 25 issues as of right now, according
to watcher count. Merry Christmas!
| 1492 | Constant variables (policy => “constant”) get redefined |
| 3874 | 3.5.3 init.d/cfengine3 breaks CFEngine in Debian VMs |
| 2208 | cf-serverd not handeling concurrency as well after upgrading to 3.4.2 |
| 2419 | Default bindtointerface in server control body excluded ipv6 |
| 3977 | Please add “gdb” like debugging for setting breakpoints and stepping through policy execution |
| 1584 | Occasional non-repeatable “Naked variable expected” error message |
| 2792 | sys.ip_addresses doesn’t return ipv6 addresses |
| 997 | Strange behaviour when using templates |
| 2243 | Identical lines are not inserted in edit_line |
| 2455 | cf-runagent does not understand ipv6 addresses |
| 4734 | cf_promises_validated: add the checksum of all the files under sys.masterdir |
| 3037 | skipidentify causes bootstrap failure on ipv6 only agent. |
| 3824 | Improve the situation for string type (maximum length, documentation) |
| 6873 | datastate() will run out of memory if used multiple times |
| 1397 | Invalid expansion with slist in templates |
| 1617 | Remote copy directory structure with symbolic links in it. |
| 1732 | process_count and restart_class in the same process receive error (but still works) |
| 1811 | segfault on 3.4.0 |
| 2276 | Unwanted package cache updates |
| 2560 | cf_lock database grows too fast becase of changing “reports” promises |
| 2954 | Bootstrap to hostname does not use the hostname for policy server communication |
| 3015 | 3.5.0 error: Failed to chdir into flat file. |
| 3017 | Rotation for promise_summary.log |
| 3039 | improve splaycalss |
| 3041 | Syslog facility on a per-promsie basis |
