New date for Samba 4.1rc1

Karolin Seeger ks at sernet.de
Thu Jun 13 02:51:35 MDT 2013


Hi Andrew,
hi list,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:34:59PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> As we discussed on IRC and in private, I'm very keen to see Samba 4.1
> released on schedule, but while we missed the date to do the branching
> work, I don't feel a great need to rush into trying to catch up on it. 
> 
> As long as we still release on time, given the manner of patches that
> are being made to master (ie, most stuff is pretty low-impact, or
> important fixes), I don't see a major risk in delaying the branch and
> rc1.  
> 
> I'm all for making the release manager's life as simple as possible, as
> it is a big burden, so I'll support whatever you feel will make that
> easiest. 
> 
> We can always revisit the branching if I get the sudden urge to rewrite
> winbind or similar :-)

okay, so what about shipping rc1 on July 11 and rc2 on August 9?
Given the fact that there are not too many new features, two release
candidates should be enough.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.1
has been updated accordingly.

Are there any objections?

Cheers,
Karolin

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