Samba 4.0 beta2 in two weeks time, roadmap to release?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 22:03 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:08:19AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Would it be too soon to attempt another beta on 19 June?
> > > 
> > > I'm hoping to capture NTDB at that point, and have most of the remaining
> > > config.h differences removed between waf and autoconf. 
> > > 
> > > In the meantime, if you get anything major done, please update WHATSNEW
> > > 
> > > >From there, I would like to start a march towards an RC of Samba 4.0.  
> > > 
> > > To start discussion:
> > > 
> > > Beta 2 19 June
> > > Beta 3  3 July
> > > Beta 4 17 July (possible RC1 if we are confident)
> > > RC1    31 July
> > > 
> > > If we are ready for Release Candidate by 17 July, then we make it an RC,
> > > but if we do one more beta, we should be filling (and emptying) the
> > > blocker bug with the reasons. 
> > > 
> > > Why now?  In order to make a release 12 months after Samba 3.6 (9 Aug
> > > 2011), we need to make a release soon.  Our users are keen, both of the
> > > file server and AD side, and we have a great product.  We should give
> > > our users the chance to enjoy it in a stable release. 
> > > 
> > > What do folks think?
> > 
> > Just want to confirm, we're planning to branch off the
> > v4-0-test tree at RC1, and then move under release management
> > control, yes ?
> 
> Yes, the plan that we had consensus about, is to branch v4-0-test
> (and/or v4-0-stable) and turn release management over to the
> bugzilla-only mode managed by Karolin a RC1 release time.
> 
> The reason for not branching earlier (e.g. for the beta) but
> leaving the branch open for all devs until the rc1 is that it
> did not work out especially well in the past: we had to resync
> with master a couple of times. So we rather stick with master
> for the beta and only branch and lock it down at the same time
> with rc1.

With autobuild, master is a very stable, strong basis to work from.  We
should probably make the 4-0-test branch do the same, just to save
Karolin from accidental dud patches. 

> > If so, then that sounds possible (if a little ambitious :-).
> 
> Yeah, indeed. If RC date can't be kept, we can still add one
> more beta or so, though we should try to avoid that.

I'm really glad to hear that we have some consensus!

Andrew Bartlett

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