[Release Planning 3.6] Delaying Samba 3.6.11?

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Thu Jan 17 11:59:05 MST 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:01:43PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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!)

Okay, then we will ship 3.6.11 on Monday.

For future maintenance releases, 10 weeks would be fine for me also.

Cheers,
Karolin

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