[Release Planning 3.6.] 3.6.0 final on June 21?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Thu Jun 9 21:23:58 MDT 2011


Am 10.06.2011 00:49, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:38 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
>> Hi Karo,
>>
>>> Samba 3.6.0rc2 is out and hopefully, the next 3.6 release will be the
>>> final version.
>>>
>>> I would like to schedule it for June 21, if there are no objections.
>>> Please note that this would mean:
>>> - NO PATCHES AFTER JUNE 14
>>> - no commit messages that contain the words "add", "support" and "for" in
>>>   a row!
>>> - This is the last chance for release note changes.
>>>
>>> Currently, there are 2 showstoppers I am aware of:
>>> - 8214: printer driver upgrade fails, causing smbd to not exit on
>>>   startup 
>>> - 8196: Many (newer) header files don't have copyright / GPL header
>>>   comments 
>>>
>>> If there additinal blockers, please mark them as blockers.
>>
>> 8195 - rpc client code doesn't work against NT4, when we need to
>> fragment requests
>>
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8195
>>
>> I've added patches for the problem.
> 
> In 2011, with NT4 so very, very far out of any support from MS, is that
> really a show-stopper for a release?  

No, but the bugs I've found while fixing this maybe.
I could be that servers with small max_xmit are also affected.

Also I already have fixes which just need review, if the review gets
rejected
I'm fine with moving this to just "critical" instead.

metze

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