New date for Samba 4.1rc1

Simo idra at samba.org
Thu Jun 13 06:18:02 MDT 2013


On 06/13/2013 04:51 AM, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> 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?

LGTM,
+1

Simo



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