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[Sebastian Kostuch <>]

Hi,
that sounds reasonable. When can we expect then websocket changes being 
merged into master and release of rc4 version?

Regards
Sebastian

On 11.04.2015 00:55, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
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> I entirely agree with Peter: getting web-sockets support into the next
> official release appears to be very much a win-win.  Both because the
> code sounds like it's completely ready to go, and because all other
> GUI-friendly tests are proving to be pretty hideously unreliable.
>
> I had previously thought that we could make do by just releasing a
> properly-qualified and environment-limited flash client, at least for
> the time being.  But given the increased reports of bizarre numbers
> coming out of the flash client (coupled with the fact that we know it
> doesn't work properly on Mac OS X or Linux), it seems like we would be
> remiss in not at least providing the option of running a
> WebSockets-based test.
>
> Jordan
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> Jordan McCarthy
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> On 04/10/2015 03:03 PM, Peter Boothe wrote:
> > MLab is very excited about websockets and the javascript-only
> > network tests that they enable, so if we can get websocket support
> > merged into mainline NDT sooner rather than later that would be
> > great.  We have found that, for an increasing number of users,
> > Flash and Applets are no longer an acceptable solution - applets
> > now cause horrendous security warnings and flash is disabled on an
> > increasingly large number of platforms.  This leaves us a bit in
> > the lurch in terms of how to get measurements from people running a
> > web-browser until we get websocket support on the NDT server.
> >
> > Also on the positive side, the websockets branch is fully
> > unit-tested and end-to-end tested ('make check' should run the
> > tests on your local machine), and it looks like it can be merged
> > with no conflicts.
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Sebastian Kostuch
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> >  
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> >  wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, it has been long time since last NDT final release and
> > also preparations for this one are taking few months so far. Isn't
> > then better approach to release new NDT 3.7.0 final version ASAP
> > with minimal changes/fixes required to do so and after that within
> > few following months make new release (3.7.1?) which would contain
> > new features (websockets + there are also changes on MultiplePorts
> > branch which would be good to integrate with it as well) ? Merging
> > websockets now will probably make release process last longer so
> > what do you think about such approach?
> >
> > Kind regards Sebastian
> >
> >
> > On 09.04.2015 22:54, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> >
> > Aaron,
> >
> > I really like this plan.  I think that by the time RC4 is out
> > we'll have a pretty good javascript Websockets client assembled.
> > It's already functional, but we just need to make it a bit more
> > robust when it comes to error handling, and apply some general
> > stylistic changes. And as you say, it is much easier to do minor
> > version updates than some new release for a different feature.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Aaron Brown 
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> >  wrote:
> >
> > Hey Jordan,
> >
> > Given the performance … eccentricities that have been encountered,
> > we’ll need to do another -rc with some changes to the warning
> > message (along with having it use the flash applet’s definition of
> > ‘good environment’). Given that the WebSockets branch has been
> > stable, my thought is that we could merge that in for -rc4. Then
> > when we do work some more work on the websocket client, it’s just a
> > minor release to update the client instead of the whole websocket
> > environment too. What do others think?
> >
> > Cheers, Aaron
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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