Releasing Samba 4.0 RC1?

[Denis Cardon]

Hi Juan,

> First my apologies as I know this threat is not for users, but I just
> wanted to add an "outside" point of view.
 >
> You are doing a great job with samba4 and us, the users, are eager to
> use it in our production environments, but I think that you shouldn't
> rush to the RC before having fixed some mayor (at my point of view)
> features as many users will be encouraged to get samba running and they
> may disappoint after having issues or even corruption of their
> production environments.

a sysadmin ought to read the release notes before deployement. Otherwise 
he should stick to the "buy and click" kind of software so he may 
harrass some tech support when he will have screwed up his network.

I have been using samba4 in non-critical production environement for a 
year (3 primary schools, 2 libraries, 3 SMBs, total around 90 windows 
workstations) with only a few minor hiccups.

And with the project going forward, everything is going so smoothly now 
that one can get an AD setup by just typing apt-get samba4, modifying 2 
files and lauching one command line...

Proposing an infrastructure with software that is tagged as "Beta" is 
not an easy sale, even if stability is well tested and rock solid in 
simple target setup (no replication, no forest, etc.). I'm eager to see 
this great samba4 project going to RC then to Release so that it becomes 
and easy sell for SMBs and then larger networks.

Granted I always setup a separate samba3 member server for file and 
print service, but in a world where virtualisation is ubiquitous, it 
should not make a sysadmin afraid (at least not the sysadmin that would 
deploy an AD).

Cheers,

Denis

> In my opinion, an RC should be for a product that you have almost
> completed and need more testing to get new bugs you just missed, but at
> this time, you already have many important bugs waiting to get time to
> be fixed.
> I'm trying to get samba to substitute windows but domain controller is
> not working properly yet, so I'm not even trying to test s3fs just to
> pile up more problems. But I'm a fun of your work and I'll keep trying
> until I'll get it working, others may not have such enthusiasm and just
> think "this doesn't work, I'm not wasting time... let's keep windows".
> Again, just an user's opinion.
> Regards,
>
> Juan Pablo Lorier
>
> PS: I'll be back from vacation next week and I'll try this new betas :-)
>


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