How to move storage OEMs to Samba 4.0 ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:33:17PM +0200, Björn JACKE wrote:
> On 2012-06-06 at 12:36 -0700 Jeremy Allison sent off:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:24:36PM +0200, Björn JACKE wrote:
> > > 
> > > Changing the rules, that means introduce new features, which will means we will
> > > also introduce new bugs - we will lose trust among our users - with good
> > > cause. 
> > 
> > What do you propose to tell our OEMs ?
> 
> also OEMs are happy if we have stable branches. New features should go in a new
> branch or different new branches if required. Making stable branches unstable
> isn't any option.

No one is talking about making stable branches unstable. I'm talking about
backports of QA'd code. This is what YOUR COMPANIES BUSINESS MODEL IS BASED
ON !

Jeremy.