Draft of branch maintainence and release plans....

[Matt Pavlovich]

Jerry-

I have a good start on the following, and putting it on the list will
help keep it on my radar :).

For 3.0
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*Conversion to NTSTATUS for return codes

Wishlist
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*Pluggable backend for storing WINS entries (ie SQL, LDAP)

Matt Pavlovich

> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:54:18 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> To: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Draft of branch maintainence and release plans....
> 
> 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 
>   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.
> 
> * Winbind idmap storage & central idmap repository (for
>   clusters, nfs, etc...)
> 
> * Winbind working with Samba DC
> 
> * Group Mapping support (pluggable?)
> 
> * 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
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:54:32 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> To: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at nl.linux.org>
> Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: ADS-HOWTO.sgml
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> > Hi jerry,
> > 
> > Here's the ADS HOWTO converted to sgml..
> 
> Adding it to HEAD now. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Hewlett-Packard                                     http://www.hp.com
>  SAMBA Team                                       http://www.samba.org
>  --                                            http://www.plainjoe.org
>  "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed.      ISBN 0-672-32269-2
>  --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--