Releasing Samba 4.0 RC1 on 4 Sep 2012?

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Hi Andrew,

> I'm starting to feel really good about how Samba 4.0 is coming along.
> We have addressed the major memory leaks, and I am about to push changes
> to have us use posix ACLs during the AD provision, which was for me the
> most important remaining issue. 
> 
> Therefore, I would like to propose releasing Samba 4.0 RC1 on Sept 4.
> 
> Between now and then I would like to:
>  - Work with Karolin to see how I can be of assistance to her during
> this RC series and if the date is OK for her schedule.
>  - Fix the configure tests for quotas not to require librpc
>  - Implement the remaining ACL/quota configure tests in WAF
>  - Discuss removing the PIDL and perl pre-generation in autogen.sh (once
> configure doesn't need it)
>  - Add running (a hopefully reduced) ./autogen.sh to the waf dist
> process
>  - Add docs to the waf dist process
>  - consider removing the alpha13 provision (used in a test) from the
> release tarball due to space requirements
>  - Ensure that the new release scripts are sufficient for a correct
> autoconf build
>  - Adding startup inhibitors for running samba/smbd/nmbd/winbind in the
> incorrect roles. 

We really need initial support for durable handles in RC1!

I'm working hard to get the patches ready, but until September 4th there
only 5 days in the office for me.

> If someone else could take on:
>  - Adding at least initial manpages for any currently undocumented
> binaries
>  - Moving provision into samba-tool domain provision if we don't want to
> document it separately. 
>  - Triaging the 'blocker' bugs on
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8622 into those we can fix,
> and those we can't plausibly fix. 
> or working with me on any of the above it would be most, most helpful. 

If possible we should add some magic that rejects to work as AD DC in a
domain
which also has Windows DCs. As that can't work as SYSVOL replication
isn't supported
and we could also corrupt the Windows database if we send replication
notifications
while a windows dc is currently replicating from us. (We could have an
option to
allow this, but that should be off similar to the "dsdb:schema update
allowed"
option.

> This is a lot of work for 2 weeks, but I want to avoid doing it in the
> week before SDC as that will be busy with preparation for travel.

Maybe we should aim for September 7th? Which would mean 3 additional
days for me.
But still I can't promise that it's ready by then.

metze

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