[Samba] Samba 3.2, Samba 3.3 release planning

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 22 17:12:45 GMT 2008


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:35:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Michael Adam (ma at sernet.de):
> 
> > If I am not completely wrong, this had been decided as well
> > as follows: A release will reach EOL when the next release
> > goes into maintenance mode, i.e. when the second next release
> > comes out. With the aimed release cycle of 6 months, this means
> > that each release will go into maintenance mode after 6 months
> > and reach EOL anonther 6 months later. Example: 3.2 will go into
> > maintenance mode in december 2008, when 3.3 is scheduled for
> > release, and 3.2 will reach EOL around June 2009 (?) when 3.4 is
> > scheduled.
> > 
> > At least that is what Karolin had proposed and as far as I
> > remember at least noone had objected. (Time will tell if the
> > workload is manageable with such a tight release cycle.)
> 
> 
> have you folks settled on a security support maintenance window,
> i.e. having some kind of commitment to try supporting security patches
> for releases that are no longer in maintenance mode.
> 
> You see where I'm going, I think: what will happen if security issues
> are discovered after June 2009 ? Is there a chance that, at least in a
> best effort mode, some patches are provided for 3.2.* series?

Yes, I think it's reasonable to provide security patches for
a year after release, and I'll commit (personally) to doing
that.

Jeremy.


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