Depricate auth parameters in 3.6, remove in master?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:27:08PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 07:48 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:09:05PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > I would like to remove in master (for the 4.0 release) the following
> > > parameters, and to give our users fair warning, I would like these
> > > marked as deprecated in 3.6:
> > 
> > Do you really want that? It would make life miserable for
> > the S3 developers to keep a 3.x release stream going.
> 
> The reason I asked was to find this out.  As I asked Jeremy on IRC: when
> will Samba 3.6 really branch?  It isn't my intention to make 3.6
> development difficult, but similarly if I am to help prepare for a 4.0
> release, there needs to be a time when these changes are acceptable in
> master.  

The next question is: What will the S3 developers work from
after 3.6 is released. If we fundamentally change source3 in
master, the only choice will be to work mainly in
v3-7-test branched from v3-6-test.

Volker