Where to for Samba4?

William Jojo jojowil at hvcc.edu
Fri Sep 7 20:33:00 GMT 2007



---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:15:12 +0200
>From: Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mwallnoefer at yahoo.de>  
>Subject: Re: Where to for Samba4?  
>To: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
>Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
>
>Hi Andrew!
>
>Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
>> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 06:17 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>   
>>>> The goals you mentioned in your previews mail perfectly match a project
>>>> name of "samba4dc", and it would make a lot of sense to have something
>>>> like this.
>>>>       
>>> A Samba 4 that can do what Samba 3 can't seems more important than a
>>> Samba 4 that can do everything Samba 3 can;  since there is a Samba 3.
>>> Running an NT4 domain almost gets more painful by the day,  and if I or
>>> anyone else has to give up and switch to AD it is going to be a hard
>>> fight to come *back* to Samba.  But without some confident sounding
>>> "release" most people aren't going to touch Samba 4.
>>>     
>>
>> I was wondering why I have this gut feeling against the samba4AD
>> tagging, and perhaps this is it.  We need Samba4 to look and position
>> like a serious release, or else it won't be. 
>>
>> Andrew Bartlett
>>
>>   
>I think, we have to do something to involve more people in the SAMBA 4 
>project. I don't know really what to do at the moment, but we have to 
>figure out something. Otherwise, SAMBA 4 will be dead!
>

I can do my part and start offering binaries on AIX to encourage people to test. Does anyone think this will be helpful?


Cheers,

Bill


>Matthias


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