versions on private libs (was: Re: Releasing Samba 4.0 RC1 on 4 Sep 2012?)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 00:53 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org> wrote:
> > Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> > I agree this is a key feature, as durable handles are a major part of
> >> > what is really special in SMB3.
> >> >
> >> > Is there anything I can do to assist with this?
> >> > [...]
> >> >
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > I'm happy with Sep 7 or Sep 10 (at the latest) if Karolin is happy with
> >> > me doing the RC1.  (That close to SDC, I would prefer to just handle it
> >> > with existing processes and scripts personally than also co-ordinate it
> >> > with someone else).
> >>
> >> Let's see where we are next week.
> >
> > Yeah, let's aim for Sep 7 (with a fallback to 10). This gives us
> > a couple of additional days, and I am positive we can sort it out.
> > As I wrote in the other thread, I think it should be ok to do the
> > RC1 as you did the betas, Andrew - the important thing is the
> > change in mode once the RC1 has been cut.
> I agree.
> 
> I'm going to work on the doc issues to minimize effect of older
> environments though it might take more time than we have for RC1.
> 
> I also need to finish private libraries ABI patches that are cooking
> in https://git.samba.org/?p=ab/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stableabi,
> more on which on Monday.

Thanks for the heads up.  In return, I would like to flag that I would
like to talk about these, to make sure I understand exactly what is
linking against private libs and what promises we are making.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org