Re: meeting minutes, 2020-09-14

[Ricardo Signes]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, at 09:44, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> 2020-09-14

>  * rsto
>* AFL has detected an httpd crasher! \o/

My mistake, this was found by honggfuzz.

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rjbs

Re: meeting minutes, 2020-08-31

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, September 11, 2020 11:07 AM +1000 ellie timoney 
 wrote:



Hi Quanah,


Is someone able to answer as to what the process should be for accepting
merges?  I'd like to be able to move forward on cyrus-sasl development.
:)


I'm not really sure, but maybe this is something we can all chat about
and figure something out.  Are you able to join one of our weekly
conference calls?  The zoom link is here:
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/support/feedback-meetings.html

Not sure what timezone you're in, but we usually flip to the other end of
the day around mid-late October (once AU/US switch their respective
DST's).  I'm not currently sure what date we'll be switching over, but
it's not far away now.  So maybe if the current meeting time is
unsuitable for you, the AU summer/US winter time might be more workable?


Hi Ellie,

I'm on the US west coast, so Pacific time.  It looks like 11 UTC is 4 AM, 
which isn't a time I can easily make. ;)  So the other time may be 
workable, depending on what it is.


Regards,
Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP:

meeting minutes, 2020-09-14

[Ricardo Signes]

2020-09-14

 * ellie
   * xsyslog is now merged!
 * please get into a habit of using it in new code.  there’s some examples 
in b9191eeb09
 * if fm ops notices specific log outputs they want fixed they can throw 
them at ellie
 * will continue to chip away at converting existing ones as 
time/motivation permits
   * mbname_from_foo() constructor APIs (esp mbname_from_userid()) should work 
harder to only produce valid mbname objects?  mbname_from_intname() and 
mbname_from_extname() look fairly thorough, but mbname_from_userid() is 
especially naive, causing #3169.  i haven’t looked at the others (if there are 
others).
   * Australia will be back in DST again in a few weeks, so we should start 
thinking about when to flip the meeting time to the other end of the day
   * added a new makefile target to run each cunit test individually (instead 
of along with all others) and found 55 tests that don’t run on their own, 
mostly due to the same leaky abstraction
 * imapd.conf contents were being generated, but not every test that relied 
on those did the generation, so they passed because an earlier test did
 * some mbox name tests remain to fix, though (?)
   * custom annotation definitions: are specified case-insensitive, but we load 
them case-sensitively — would be easy to fix, but a comment suggests that our 
DAV annotations are case-sensitive.  Q:  Do we need *custom* DAV annotations?
 * brong
   * working on compaction stuff
   * first pass of synchronous replication is done!  needs testing, but maybe 
this week can go onto unstable testing stores
   * MR called “debug syslog lock ordering”, keeps ptr atr of open locks; the 
bookkeeping has been a mess because a bunch of code just closes the fd, not an 
explicit lock destroy
 * [ some discussion of how we can improve this and track locks better ]
   * fix search code path to better eliminate items in non-mail folders
 * rsto
   * AFL has detected an httpd crasher! \o/
   * ran fuzzer for 11d against the httpd, didn’t find any other crashers
   * may turn fuzzer back to other components, or maybe update its dictionary 
for better-targeted attack
   * JMAP calendars work still happening on the side
   * “I’d like to return to the coverage report.”
 * have found a few places that are clearly under-tested
 * the rest of us should give it a look to see what else looks 
insufficiently tested
 * also: can we run an instrumented-for-code-path-entry Cyrus on a 
used-but-not-for-customers branch to gather more real-world usage?  Answer:  
yes, probably, but there are some owner/mode shenanigans to make it all work
 * murch
   * spent a bunch of time on JMAP Sieve script code, mostly the testing code
 * there have been some memory management issues with ownership of strings

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Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
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