status of DRS efforts in Samba4 (and a developer tutorial)

[Andrew Kroeger]

Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> Andrew Kroeger schrieb:
>> Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
>>> Andrew Kroeger,
>>>
>>> your work is highly appreciated. I applied your patches in a slightly 
>>> different version...
>>
>> Matthias:
>>
>> My contributions are mine, as are yours!
>>
>> I have looked at your Git repository and you must separate my 
>> contributions from yours!!  If you do not, it looks like I have 
>> submitted my changes as well as yours, all as part of my contribution.
>>
>> Please take my submitted patches and commit your additions as 
>> additional patches on top of them.

Matthias:

> To be honest I don't see this as a major issue if I adapted your patch a 
> little bit. I didn't like the place where you inserted the objects since 
> I prefer to keep an ordering in the LDIFs (worked hard over the summer 
> to introduce this).
> Well, the comments - okay - I cut put them in a standalone commit.

I'm not taking issue with the work you have put into Samba 4.  In fact, 
I very much appreciate the work you are doing!

What I do have an issue with is attributing changes to me that are not 
actually mine.  If my proposed changes are acceptable as I submitted 
them, please merge them.  If you have issues with what I have submitted, 
please do one of two things:

1.  Reject my proposed patch and request I make changes in order to get 
it accepted.

2.  Accept my proposed patch -- in its whole, un-modified -- and add 
additional commits under your name to correct any issues you find with 
my proposed patch.

I need this to happen for a number of reasons:

1.  I put a lot of work into the changes I propose.  This work includes 
running a full make test (over one hour of my time) to verify my 
submitted changes.

2.  My proposed changes are just that -- mine.  If there are any issues 
with my submission (code, style, quality, etc.) please address those 
issues to me and I will deal with them.

3.  If you adopt a policy of modifying contributions of others (while 
keeping the attribution of the changes under the original submitter's 
name), where do you "draw the line"?  What may start out as minor 
changes to someone's submission has the potential to evolve to more 
substantial changes, while maintaining attribution to the original 
submitter.  Potential submissions (especially from corporate employees) 
may be stifled for legal reasons if there is any concern that the 
initial contribution may be modified, yet still attributed back to the 
original contributor.

> If you are *very* unhappy with my changed patch (I kept also your name - 
> since the innovation is from you) - I can rework it (split it up). 
> Anyway the next time I will comment if I don't like something in your 
> patches and let you correct this before I take it

As I addressed the issue above, please split my contribution and your 
changes into separate commits -- my contribution and your changes to 
re-order and add additional comments in the code.

Sincerely,
Andrew Kroeger