Which patches are NOT for 4.0?

[Karolin Seeger]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:42:16AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:25:38AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > > I just wanted to raise an interesting observation from watching the GIT
> > > tree since rc1.  That is, when selecting the patches we want to get in
> > > the rc2 release, we might want to work not just off the bugs in
> > > bugzilla, but instead look over *all* the patches in master.
> > 
> > We should look over all patches and create bugreports for all logic
> > subunits.
> > E.g. one bug report for all sorts of quota related fixes.
> > Or one bug report for smb2.durable-v2-open.app-instance related tests
> > and the implementation.
> > 
> > > I don't see this as us 'releasing from master', but instead just noting
> > > that there isn't any feature work going on yet, and that everyone is and
> > > has been working exclusively on release-critical bugs.  
> > > 
> > > Naturally, this gets harder as soon as someone starts on features for
> > > 4.1, but for now, I just wanted to raise the idea as either:
> > >  - a benchmark to compare with (so we don't miss something)
> > >  - or a way perhaps two of us could work over the patch list and prepare
> > > a single, larger bug with most/all of rc1..master changes in it. 
> > > 
> > > To be totally clear: I'm not wanting to change our policy on what can be
> > > put into RC at this point, just trying to make the mechanics simpler for
> > > all involved.
> > 
> > I'm maintaining a branch locally where I'll rebase origin/master on
> > origin/v4-0-test
> > in order to see which things are missing, I think that's enough.
> > 
> > I think for documentation changes we could use a bulk bugreport/patchset,
> > but the rest should be based on isolated bug reports.
> > 
> > And there're already things in master which we don't need in 4.0.
> > E.g. the "libtorture: factor out simple ui backend" change and some
> > pysmb changes
> > doesn't need to be in 4.0
> > If it turns out just before some release, that we only have a few
> > patches between
> > between master and v4-0-test, we can think about picking them for
> > consistency,
> > but I wouldn't decide that now.
> 
> I'm really happy with the current system of creating bug
> reports for *every* change that goes into 4.0.0 now we've
> reached rc.
> 
> No blanket backports or cherry-picks allowed, we must
> think about *every* change we want to make, and it must
> be reviewed appropriately.
> 
> We need to have this kind of discipline if we're going to
> create a quality 4.0.0 release.

+1

Cheers,
Karolin

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