Default DNS server for Samba 4.0

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Sep 7 10:04:35 MDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 11:54:45AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 09:48 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
> > > 
> > > As I mentioned before, I didn't see that much difference between the
> > > alpha and beta releases. We had two beta releases that were more broken
> > > than many of our alphas were. I fail to see how that is stabilization.
> > > RC1 is the first point were we draw a line on the ground and say "from
> > > here on, we focus on making it work reliably".
> > 
> > +1 on this, a *massive* +1 on this.
> > 
> > While the tree is open for checkins from anything that
> > passes "make test" this is not stabilization. Stabilization
> > will come when we have to have 2+ engineer review and an
> > open bug to make any changes, with Karolin gatekeeping.
> > 
> > This has worked *AMAZINGLY* well for the 3.5.x and 3.6.x
> > releases, and I think we'll find the same for 4.0.0.
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> You may not have noticed, but in the AD server, the stabilisation phase
> started started a number of months ago.  Essentially it started with
> beta2, when we turned on s3fs.  Since then I've focused myself almost
> entirely on fixing bugs and writing tests, mostly related to the
> ACL/idmap interactions to support GPOs on smbd.  

Sure I've noticed that, and I commend you on your restraint.

But it isn't the same as the stabilization we get on a released
branch.

Jeremy.


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