a proposal for Samba 3.5

[tridge at samba.org]

Jelmer,

 > This sounds like a great idea! It lowers the barrier for
 > contributing on Samba4 and would also allow the new Samba4 code to
 > be tested broader.  I'd be happy to help with samba3-and-a-half or
 > samba4 as soon as I finish the registry library.

good! glad you like it.

 > I hope to present an early version of it (with working gconf, tdb,
 > nt4, rpc and fs backends) at SambaXP.

And I'll try and convince you to add a ldb backend :-)