Samba 4.2?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:30:09AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Am 08.07.2014 10:46, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 21:03 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:58 +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:13:18PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >>>> I presume this was discussed at SambaXP, and I know I've seen a number
> >>>> of Jeremy's 'must have' features committed recently, so where are we at
> >>>> with Samba 4.2?
> >>>
> >>> same question here. Can we branch now and plan to release in 3 month from
> >>> now?
> >>
> >> I think we should.  There will always be another feature just over the
> >> horizon, but a feature rushed for 4.2 isn't a good feature to have in
> >> 4.2.
> > 
> > It's been an interesting and busy time since SambaXP, and much more
> > seems to be happening now than when I first posted this thread, but I
> > still think we should branch for 4.2.
> > 
> > CTDB is now waf-built, and the AD DC now has winbindd, the new messaging
> > system in in source3 and lots of other good things have been merged.
> > Samba 4.2 will be a release to be proud of, and we should start the road
> > of getting it to our users.
> 
> As a start I created https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10695
> "Samba 4.3 can't be released bug" similar to
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10077 "Samba 4.2 can't be
> released bug"
> 
> We need to have a look at the blocker bugs of
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10077
> and may move them to https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10695.
> 
> I'd like to do a new tdb release and get all the mutex related patches
> into master.
> I think it also makes sense to have the first my
> master3-multi-channel-ok patches
> in to reduce the diff between 4.2 and master. Then we're ready for 4.2.0rc1
> which would be the branch point.
> 
> I think other features should be deferred to 4.3 e.g. leases,

I think leases are important to try and get into 4.2 if
possible.

Volker, is your branch ready for review ? I'd love
to start work on that.

Cheers,

	Jeremy.