Releasing Samba 4.0 RC1?

[Matthieu Patou]

On 08/14/2012 12:25 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 22:50 -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>
>> I think we should really start to tackle all our blocking bugs for 4.0
>> before the RC, we can recheck the list also we discussed about a white
>> paper for users about 4.0 in terms of understanding what is this 4.0
>> release (ie. stability of the file server between version 3.6.x and
>> 4.0.x, ...) I think if we decide not to have read ACLs activated it's
>> *really* important to state it in this kind of paper so that admin
>> picking this are aware of it.
>> A release a bit before SDC didn't sounds to bad if we starts to tackle
>> the two points mentioned before.
> Matthieu,
>
> I'm confused.  How can we start to tackle all our blocking bugs for 4.0
> before the RC and a do an RC before SDC?
start to tackle didn't mean ihmo resolving all the issues before RC but 
at least starting to work on them to see those that are still relevant 
and those which aren't anymore.
>
> To be clear:  I don't have time for any of the bugs attached as blockers
> there so far, and don't expect that situation to improve in the next
> month.   (I'm still swamped by trying to keep on top of the various
> things reported on the list daily and the remaining s3fs issues).
Well you do a pretty good job on this but
>
> I appreciate your offer to find time to work on this, but I also think
> we need to be much more realistic about what we can actually achieve.
>
> All that said, I agree it would be useful to start on a document
> explaining how Samba 4.0 and it's components fits into Samba's release
> stream.  Perhaps this is something concrete you can start on?
I'm quite ok to work on this just if we agree that's important it will 
be eventually a blocker for the final release. Code feature are 
important but documentation for users is important to.

Matthieu.

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Matthieu Patou
Samba Team
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