[Announce] CTDB release 2.0 is ready for download

Mon Nov 5 12:05:41 MST 2012

Pulling this all together under a new version number will give us a solid 
foundation moving forward.  I like that.

How does this get integrated into Samba?  Can you point me at the 
documentation that shows me how to use 2.0 with Samba 3.6.8?

Thanks.

Chris -)-----

On 11/05/2012 07:45 AM, Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi Amitay,
>
> On 2012-10-31 at 19:59 +1100, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org> wrote:
>>> On 2012-10-31 at 16:14 +1100, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
>>>> This is long overdue CTDB release. There have been numerous code
>>>> enhancements and bug fixes since the last release of CTDB.
>>>
>>> it is really very nice, that we start over, version-wise! :-)
>>>
>>> Are you planning to create a ctdb-2.0 branch off the release tag
>>> so that this version can stabilize?
>>
>> Owing to a *very small* active group of developers of CTDB, most of
>> the new commits would be bug-fixes. ;-)
>
> Well, that is what a stable release branch is for - bugfixes...  ;)
>
>> I didn't want to take on extra work of maintaining multiple
>> development/release branches till there is significant contribution
>> and new developments. I will continue to release from master till we
>> need separate stable and development branches.
>
>>>> Highlights
>>>> =======
>>>>
>>>> * Support for readonly records (http://ctdb.samba.org/doc/readonlyrecords.txt)
>>>
>>> Wasn't that alrady in the 1.2.* versions and the version stream
>>> in the branch 1.13 ?
>>>
>>>> * Locking API to detect deadlocks between ctdb and samba
>>>> * Fetch-lock optimization to rate-limit concurrent requests for same record
>>>> * Support for policy routing
>>>> * Modified IP allocation algorithm
>>>> * Improved database vacuuming
>>>
>>> This is also available in the 1.2.* stream (various 1.2.X branches)
>>> and even the 1.0.114.* versions (1.0.114 branch).
>>>
>>>> * New test infrastructure
>>>
>>> Sorry for pointing these out so bluntly.
>>> I may have missed somethings, but I also did not
>>> want to let a false impression arise that the
>>> items I commented on were newly created and are
>>> not available in eralier releases.
>>>
>>> If this is misleading or wrong, please apologize and clarify! :-)
>>
>> Last time I checked, the last community released code (either in
>> tarball or RPM form) was 1.0.114. Correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> If the changes I mentioned were present in 1.0.114 release, I need to
>> improve my git skills significantly. :-)
>
> Please look into the branch 1.0.114.
> I did update the changelog for each 1.0.114.X release...
>
> Well, maybe we have a different understanding of what have been
> official ctdb releases. Given that there has never been a real
> release process (up to now), I also counted the following events
> as releases of ctdb:
>
> - Announcements of new releases to the samba-technical mailing
>    list, as e.g. Ronnies mail for "1.13" on 2012-03-01.
>    There are more examples of that.
>
> - Releae-Tags for versions, pushed to master or one of the release
>    branches.
>    Examples of stabilized release branches are 1.0.114
>    (which I maintain and where we are at 1.0.114.5), 1.2, the
>    slightly strange stream of release branches 1.2.27, 1.2.39, 1.2.40,
>    and 1.13.
>
> All that being said, it is of course great to start over
> with a new release stream and with proper release process,
> annoucements and source tar ball!
>
> I just wanted to prevent the impression that all these features
> are brand new and have not been available at all yet.
>
> A note on publishing the sources:
> I think it would be most useful to primarily publish the tarballs
> (not the source RPMs), and to make sure that also the ctdb
> compiled from tarball has a proper version number (and not only
> that compiled via source RPM).
>
> Cheers - Michael
>

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