[SAMBA4] SWAT2 maintainer?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Samstag, den 01.09.2007, 09:23 +1000 schrieb Andrew Bartlett: 
> If we dropped SWAT from the tarball for this alpha release, we could
> drastically reduce the 'shock-value' of the release size:
> 
> [abartlet at naomi SAMBA_4_0_RELEASE]$ du -k *.tar.gz
> 4960    samba-4.0.0alpha1-SVN-build-UNKNOWN.tar.gz
> 9316    samba-4.0.0alpha1-SVN-build-UNKNOWN-with-webapps.tar.gz
Wow, that does matter a lot, indeed.

> We would also avoid promising SWAT into the future, as it remains
> completely untested - every time I do a new test on SWAT, I find
> something else broken.  But because it's a web app, I can't script the
> testing...
> 
> Alternately, we could drop SWAT2, and for alpha2 revert to the SWAT code
> included in TP1 (which, with a bit of a fiddle, I think I could write
> automated tests for). 
How usable would it be in that form? There's no point in having a
stripped down SWAT like the one in Samba 3 imho.

This is an alpha, so I don't think having SWAT in now gives the wrong
impression to people about continuity. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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