patch pressure and Samba 3.1/4.0

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Folks,

We seem to be getting some patch pressure on the 3.0 tree.
Recent examples of this include the SAM account flags patch,
the cracklib support, and the trust domain password storage
updates.

For this reason, I've sync'd up recent changes in 3.0 with
the HEAD branch and will start encouraging people to start
working on the 3.1 release slated for later this year (hopefully).
Work that has been proven to be stable in HEAD can be pulled
back into the 3.0 tree if the proportion of risk vs. need
is convincing enough and will need to be ok'd by either Jeremy
or myself.

Plans for 3.0 are to continue to fix bugs and only implement
new functionality as necessary.

The 2 most visible features for the 3.1 release will be

~  * Full Windows NT ACL semantics
~  * SAM replication with Windows NT 4 BDC
~    (which means also acting as a BDC in a
~     mixed mode AD domain)

Work on Samba 4 continues.  Jeremy has been knighted with the
job of implementing the posix backend.   Tridge is leading
current work on the rpc implementation with the help of
various others.

We also have other smaller projects going on such as

~  * the libregistry api (jelmer)
~  * internationalization test suite (Takeda Yasuma)
~  * DC location improvements (jerry)





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cheers, jerry
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