What's next for Samba ?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Nov 12 21:53:52 GMT 2003


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:03:00PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote about 'What's next for Samba ?':
> I'm opening the floor for discussion about the feature
> set for the next major Samba release.  Will it be Samba4?
> Will there be a 3.1?  Who knows?

> For a little bit of history, we have historically lived
> on a release for anywhere from 2 - 3 years (2.0 was 2 yrs.
> & 2.2. was 3 yes.l..i would have to check on 1.9).  What
> I would like to see is to shoot for release on a 12 month
> timeframe.  This means that we would need to be in beta
> release by somtime in June to release by Sept/Oct.

> So what do people want to get done in the next 7 - 8
> months.   Let the games begin.....
I'd like to get libregistry in, with a couple of backends. The
Registry chapter in the Developers' Docs describes the planned
interface quite well.

And of course random things that come up on the way :-)

Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij                                              <jelmer at samba.org>
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