Moving forward towards releasing Samba 4.0

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 00:59 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Regarding our current efforts for a release of Samba 4.0,
> here are my ideas on how to proceed, to make things
> a little more concrete:
> 
> * I would love to see a (first) Beta this month (May), i.e.
>   essentially in the next two weeks.
> 
>   My understanding was that with the ACL-patches that went into
>   master last week, the last issue with storing GPOs should
>   essentially be fixed. (I still need to test and verify myself.)

Pretty much, yes.  I've had Ricky Nace working with me to reproduce
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8938 and I would appreciate a
comment from the ACL maintainers to confirm what is going wrong here.

I would also like to make the change to the acl_xattr storage format I
discussed on the list (move to a hash of the raw posix ACL, not the
mapped NT ACL), but I will not let this put off the beta. 

>   Our idea was that the Beta will be cut in a similar manner to
>   to the alphas we have done so far.

Yes.  I'll make the release, and I want to do it before the end of the
month. 

>   My understanding is that "s3fs" will be made the default
>   for the Beta.

Aside from the above, that is essentially my next Samba4 task.  (My next
other task is bug #8943)

>   What about DNS, btw?

I've seen no change on DNS since we last discussed it (on the team
list), and I'm not sure that continuing to talk about a possible change
here on the basis of the hope of future development is useful.  

> * There might be another Beta after the first one related to the
>   tdb/tdb2/ntdb changes that are currently in progress.

Yes. 

> * My hope is that we can stabilize to _at least_ an RC1 until
>   the time of the SDC (i.e around September).
>   (RC2 or final would be better, of course.. :-)

I look forward to working with you on this.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org