[Release Planning 3.6] Delaying Samba 3.6.11?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jan 17 03:01:43 MST 2013


On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 10:26 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Am 17.01.2013 09:29, schrieb Karolin Seeger:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Samba 3.6.11 is scheduled for Monday, January 21.
> > Currently, the following bugs would be addressed:
> > 
> > - https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9546
> >   Configure does not reliably detect aio_suspend on FreeBSD 
> > 
> > - https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9550
> >   sigprocmask does not work on FreeBSD to stop further signals in a signal
> >   handler
> > 
> > - https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9548
> >   O_DIRECT detection is broken in configure
> > 
> > - https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9196
> >   defer_open is triggered multiple times on the same request
> > 
> > - https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9471
> >   SEGV when using second vfs module
> > 
> > I would like to propose to delay the release for six weeks (Monday, March
> > 4). Are there any objections?
> 
> I think it's worth to do a release with just this patches.

I agree these look like reasonable fixes, but every 6 weeks just seems
to frequent now the branch has moved to maintenance mode.  What about
pushing it back to 10 weeks?  (That would still be 5 releases per year!)

Andrew Bartlett
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