[SAMBA4] Time for another tech preview?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Sep 29 18:37:46 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 20:28 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 22:52 -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > A long time ago, in a universe not that far away, we released our very
> > first Samba4 Technology Preview (TP1).  It went down very well, as we
> > announced it to the world at linux.conf.au this year.  
> > 
> > A few weeks later, we released TP2.  Then nothing.  
> > 
> > There were various reasons:  Advise that we should back off TP releases
> > until we had something 'big' to show off, and instead do regular
> > snapshots.  People got busy, did other things, etc.
> > 
> > In the very long time since TP2, we have come a long way, and I think we
> > do have a good deal to show off.  For example, we now have an SMB2
> > server, and an LDAP backend. 
> > 
> > We also build and test on more platforms than perhaps ever before:
> > Either something is very, very odd, or Tridge (and others) have been
> > working really, really hard on portability.  At the moment, we fail on
> > only 8 hosts, of the 38 we current test against!
> > 
> > When we met at the CIFS conference, there seemed general agreement that
> > this was a good time to do a TP, but nothing much happened.  I would
> > like to push this forward myself, or hear good reasons why we should
> > not.
> Yep, I definetely think this is a good idea. Let's get it out now.
> Perhaps we can create a separate branch now, before we regress again
> because of new features?

Yes, taking a branch now would be good.  What's the SVN command for
that?

> I'll try to help out where I can though I'll make sure some of the pidl
> bugs that affect Samba3 get fixed first.

Can I be placed into the group for the Samba4 _RELEASE branch?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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