[Release Planning 4.2] 4.2.0 final on Wednesday, March 4?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 13:59 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 09:56:46PM +0100, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:46:49AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 08:43:53PM +0100, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Samba 4.2.0rc5 is out now.
> > > > 
> > > > What about freezing the v4-2-test branch tomorrow and ship the final
> > > > release one week later?
> > > > 
> > > > Currently, there are 4 blockers left, one with review patch available.
> > > > Please see https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10077 for details.
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to delay the 4.0 and 4.1 maintenance releases to kick 4.2 out
> > > > of the door.
> > > > 
> > > > Are there any objections?
> > > 
> > > Actually, all of the blockers except for the vfs_ceph manpage
> > > one have patches available !
> > > 
> > > I say let's go for it !!!!
> > 
> > I ignored the freeze and pushed everything available up to now and there
> > are 6 blockers left.
> 
> Sigh. The damn things keep growing faster than we
> nail them.

They always will.

> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10833 - Compile fix for FreeBSD needed. Reschedule for 4.2.1.
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10980 - Patch available but not reviewed. Reschedule for 4.2.1.
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11082 - Reschedule for 4.2.1.
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11092 - Backport needed for 4.2.0... Reschedule for 4.2.x
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11097 - Patch available but not reviewed. Reschedule for 4.2.x
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11118 - Minor cleanup only needed. Reschedule for 4.2.x
> 
> > Shall I go ahead on Wednesday anyway?
> 
> I think you can go on Wed (for me at least).

Issues 11097 and 10980 do impact users, but neither are regressions -
they are equally broken on 4.1, which is where our users first saw the
issues.  I've backported the patches and verified it passes our tests.

All that said, I agree with the above assessment - we can't wait for
everything forever, and we have waited for far to much for far to long
with this cycle.  We really need to work out a way to get these release
cycles shorter.

Thanks,

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba