[Release Planning 3.6] First 3.6.0 preview in July?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:21:05AM +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On Mi, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:11:06 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:10:36AM +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
> > > 
> > > I would like to ship Samba 3.6.0pre1 on July 14. That would mean to branch
> > > v3-6-test one week before and to start preparing the release notes now.
> > > 
> > > If you think that's too early, please have in mind that we do need round
> > > about 3 release candidates and not less than 3 preview releases. Assuming
> > > approximately 3 to 4 weeks between each of these releases and needing a
> > > small buffer, means, we should start pretty soon to be able to stick to
> > > the release date.
> > > 
> > > Are there any objections?
> > 
> > No objections, but I would like to be able to finish full SMB2 support
> > (currently finishing up AIO) - would I be able to log "XX feature
> > missing in SMB2 implementaion" as a bug to get patches merged into
> > the branched tree ?
> 
> yes, of course.
> 
> As long as the first RC is not out of the door, the branch will be open
> anyway. Can you give a rough estimate when the SMB2 support could be
> finished?

SMB2 on feature parity with SMB1 is mostly done (especially now I have
the aio in place :-) - that's probably enough for 3.6.0. Just tidying
stuff up - but I'll be working on the persistent handles and other
exotica soon :-).