Draft of branch maintainence and release plans....

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" wrote:
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> Here are the plans for getting 3.0 ready for release and the
> maintainence plans for SAMBA_2_2.  Comments welcome.
> 
> I would love to see this out sometime during the Fall of this
> year.  Of course, none of this will get done without everyone's
> help :-)
> 
> Roadmap to 3.0
> --------------
> 
> The following features are planned for inclusion in 3.0.
> This list was compiled based on previous promises during 2.2
> development and believed future directions of Samba
> 
> * Internationalization - The UNICODE support is done.  Jeremy
>   thinks we will probably need some auditing and testing
>   before release.
> 
> * Full Windows NT 4.0 PDC support
>   - Trust relationships
>   - SAM replication

I don't see this being in 3.0.  Maybe a later release, but there is more
work 'todo' in this area that you might expect.  Natrually, Samba->Samba
replication will be fully supported.

>   These features will allow for full replacement and migration
>   from Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers.  Both of these features
>   are partially completed.
> 
> * Windows 2000 domain client support - Done.
> 
> * NTLMv2 & Sign/Seal of RPC packets - NTLMv2 should be ok, the
>   sign/seal is yet to be done.

This gets messy - in particular the 'netlogon' problem isn't related to
NTLMv2 at all, its another associated mess...

> * Winbind idmap storage & central idmap repository (for
>   clusters, nfs, etc...)
> 
> * Winbind working with Samba DC
>
> * Group Mapping support (pluggable?)

The folks on #samba-technical (kai, metze, ctrlsoft, idra and I) are
working on a new SAM interface (fully pluggable etc), and we will bring
discussions here shortly on how to move this towards the mythical 'Samba
3.0'.

> * Printer attribute publishing using 'net'
> 
> * pluggable passwd support - Done.
> 
> Other possible feature which may be included depending on
> time/resources.  Probably in later 3.x release.
> 
> * Background updates of print queue caches
> 
> * WINS replication
> 
> * loadable library support for named pipes
> 
> * non-blocking winbind implementation
> 
> * Printer attribute publishing via smbd

  * SAM Replication over NT4 RPC protocols.

> SAMBA_2_2 maintainence
> ----------------------
> 
> The SAMBA_2_2 will only be updated to include fixes for
> severe bugs or security exploits.  All testing will be done
> against HEAD at this point.  No new features/functionality
> are to added due to the risk of destabilizing the branch.
> 
> There will be a 2.2.6 release most likely, but all efforts
> should be concentrated on HEAD.

Finally!  :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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