[erlang-patches] What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-10-28)

Fri Oct 28 16:29:38 CEST 2011

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https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Branches
and  
https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Submitting-patches

New Branching strategy short version:

The branch 'master' will be the upcoming major release (e.g. R15).
Branch from this to submit patches for the next major release.
(New features and major changes)

New branch 'maint' will be introduced AFTER R15, and will be the next maintenance release (e.g. R15B01) 
Branch from this to submit patches for the next maintenance release.
(Bug fixes and minor changes)

The 'pu' branch will be based on 'master' and we will later add a 'maint-pu' for the 'maint' branch.

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[Graduated]

* cf/simple_one_for_one_shutdown (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 3 commits
 + Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped (0473132)
 + Stack errors when dynamic children are stopped (42c581d)
 + Explicitly kill dynamic children in supervisors (4775947)

* cf/supervisor_shutdown_infinity (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 2 commits
 + Add a warning to docs about workers' shutdown strategy (9679510)
 + Allow an infinite timeout to shutdown worker processes (2c4e984)

* cg/fix-prng () (2010-10-06) 0 commits

* fm/enif_is_number (erts) (2011-06-08) 1 commit
 + Add NIF function enif_is_number (8db78b0)

* hl/fix-ms_transform-scope-warn (stdlib) (2011-08-26) 1 commit
 + ms_transform: Fix incorrect `variable shadowed' warnings (29610af)

* pg/des-cfb-functions () (2011-09-06) 0 commits

* rc/epp-include-path-fix (stdlib) (2011-06-14) 1 commit
 + Make epp search directory of current file first when including another file (36a4d64)

* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 8 commits
 + Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (ed72d05)
 + Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (3ae8414)
 + Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (1d3544d)
 + Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (9bb4ba8)
 + Update primary bootstrap (570594d)
 + Update the documentation with information on the callback attribute (8ea0c7c)
 + Automatically generate 'behaviour_info' function from '-callback' attributes (493262e)
 + Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (0edb6a4)

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[New topics]

* hw/asn1rt_check-transform (asn1) (2011-10-15) 1 commit
 - asn1rt_check: Fix transform_to_EXTERNAL1990 for binary input (6a69602)

* jw/gen_event (stdlib) (2011-10-18) 1 commit
 - General code clean up and clarity fixes (dbd14ea)

* jw/release_handler-which-releases (sasl) (2011-10-18) 1 commit
 - Add release_handler:which_releases/1 (66be346)

* sa/dialyzer-wunderspecs (dialyzer) (2011-10-04) 2 commits
 - Fix false warning about closure application (33f6f13)
 - Change category of 'might also return' warnings (7892a31)

* ta/docs (erts, kernel, stdlib, test_server) (2011-10-21) 6 commits
 - file: correct make_link/2 and make_symlink/2 docs (80cec73)
 - Fix typo in test_server(3) (f5645ca)
 - Fix typos in io_protocol.xml (a5351af)
 - Fix typo in erlang(3) (88db908)
 - Fix typos in tar_SUITE (b8bd881)
 - Fix typos in erts/preloaded/src (bd31962)

* ta/prim_archive-reloading-mfa (erts, kernel, stdlib) (2011-10-19) 2 commits
 - escript_SUITE: remove gratuitous space (3d89996)
 - [erts,kernel,stdlib] fix escript/primary archive reloading (4ac74ce)

* ta/snmpc-warnings-option (snmp) (2011-10-05) 1 commit
 - snmpc: fix --warnings/--W option parsing (156b2ed)

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[Stalled]

* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit
 - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932)

Action expected from: Topic author

* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2010-12-28) 1 commit
 - Added file:allocate/2 (682f39a)

Action expected from: Topic author

* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2011-04-15) 2 commits
 - Update gen_stream tests to conform with common_test standard (ce84daf)
 - Add gen_stream behaviour (6a089a4)

Action expected from: OTP-Team

* pr/mnesia_frag_hash (mnesia) (2011-04-27) 2 commits
 - add mnesia_frag_hash test (1d6762d)
 - Reduce calls to phash in key_to_frag_number (67a20c0)

Action expected from: Topic author

* tn/inet_drv-fix (erts) (2011-04-08) 1 commit
 - Use libdlpi to get physical address (e360563)

Action expected from: Topic author

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[Cooking]

* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, kernel) (2010-03-15) 5 commits
 - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (0198ee2)
 - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (41638df)
 - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (fce2b79)
 - Disable native code if on_load is used (c8994f2)
 - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (531e5d9)

This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test
cases and is never intended to graduate.

* fm/process_info_doc_fix (erts) (2011-09-20) 1 commit
 - Fix documentation for erlang:process_flag/2 (e88a46d)

* gs/mod_log-fix (inets) (2011-09-24) 1 commit
 - Fix logging of content length in mod_log (166f4cc)

* mh/create_cookie_error_msg (kernel) (2011-09-15) 1 commit
 - Specify file name and error on create_cookie failure (9319587)

* mh/run_erl-exit-status (erts) (2011-09-02) 1 commit
 - run_erl.c: propagate exit status from child process (29364cf)

* ms/epmd-IPv6-node-reg (erts, kernel) (2011-06-03) 1 commit
 - epmd: support IPv6 node registration (5523b21)

* pg/fix-cover-leftover-down-msg (tools) (2011-08-29) 1 commit
 - [cover]fix leftover {'DOWN', ..} msg in callers queue (cc087c3)

* rc/remote-shell-completion (kernel) (2010-10-22) 1 commit
 - make tab completion work in remote shells (73d1959)

* rj/fix-debugger-msgs (debugger) (2011-09-25) 2 commits
 - Fixes "OK" spelling in debugger messages and variables (808629d)
 - Fixes debugger message with wx (e43aa85)

* rj/fix-doctypos (kernel, otp) (2011-09-19) 3 commits
 - Adds missing spaces in Reference Manual in distributed section (0ac642f)
 - Fixes typo in heart doc, adds missing parenthesis (60ed9f9)
 - Fixes typo in Reference Manual in macros section (63c101d)

* rj/fix-erlang-doc-style (erts) (2011-09-26) 1 commit
 - Fixes module erlang doc style: option description (283e3ab)

* rj/fix-net_kernel-doc (kernel) (2011-09-28) 1 commit
 - Fixes net_kernel:get_net_ticktime() doc (bfa676a)

* rj/fix-remove-exec-bit (asn1, common_test, debugger, dialyzer, docbuilder, erts, hipe, orber, otp, percept, public_key, sasl, snmp, ssh, wx, xmerl) (2011-09-24) 3 commits
 - Removes exec bit from files: info files, dat, bat (25d7dee)
 - Removes exec bit from files related to: XML, make, C (b414881)
 - Removes exec bit from: erl, hrl, xml, html, asn, gif, xpm (75a1021)

* ta/nif-variadic-funs (erts) (2011-05-13) 1 commit
 - erts: convert variadic nif funs into inline funs (d76f146)

* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2011-01-13) 1 commit
 - Implement file:sendfile (cea7b65)

* nox/xmerl-namespace-axis (xmerl) (2010-12-07) 12 commits
 . Implement namespace axis (27d791f)
 . Add `#xmlPI` support to xmerl_xpath:write_node/1 (75e67f5)
 . Fix processing-instruction(name?) (f05e78b)
 . Fix path filters (610df56)
 . Support more top-level primary expressions (770d6d9)
 . Accumulate comments in element nodes (e5b6b3a)
 . Add `default_attrs` option (18584c5)
 . Allow whole documents to be returned (aef3dea)
 . Track parents and namespace in `#xmlAttribute` nodes (dc9b220)
 . Track parents in `#xmlPI` nodes (5095331)
 . Set `vsn` field in `#xmlDecl` record (d712331)
 . Fix namespace-conformance constraints (e062270)

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[Dropped]

* rj/typer-fix-delete (typer) (2011-09-24) 1 commit
 . Fixes TypEr crash when doing old files cleanup (189d095)