[ntp:hackers] Suggestions for getting a patch accepted smoothly?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.org
Thu May 6 20:46:19 UTC 2010


Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm nearly done developing a patch to the sntp client source code that
> is part of the source code distribution from ntp.org.  I seek advice on
> how to get that patch through the procedures and processes that lead to
> it being accepted into that distribution in a timely fashion.
> 
> My patch is intended to fully and correctly implement sntp authentication,
> implementing the -a and -k command line options, and broadcast/multicast
> feature (the -b option), the timeout feature (the -t option), and correctly
> implement the parsing of v4 extensions in sntp responses (should there ever
> be any :).  It addresses these bugs:
> 
> https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325
> https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459
> 
> I'm nearly done. I'm just working out some details about the extension
> parsing now, and I'm hoping to test with at least one live ntpd server that
> does MD5 or SHA1 authentication.  The patch affects only 5 source files, but
> is a pretty major overhaul of one of them (networking.c).
> 
> What should I do to get this patch through the process, once it's ready?
> Any suggestions?
> Attach the patch as a diff -pu to the bug and request someone to review it?
> who?  anything else?
> 
> /Nelson Bolyard  (Mozilla open source developer, RFC 4492 co-author)

If this is modular enough (or can be easily modularized) we would
probably want to eventually put it into libntp since a lot of apps need
common networking components. We look forward to seeing this.

Danny




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