Release early, Release often

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Tue May 5 11:23:26 MDT 2015


On 2015-04-28 at 11:23 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 18:03 -0500, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't this also raise the issue of release cycles for related and
> > dependent packages?  Just off the top of my head, cifs-utils (which,
> > at times, relies on a minimum kernel release) and clustered tdb would
> > have to be somewhat on cycle with the Samba release to keep things
> > sane, right?
> 
> As I understand it, CTDB releases as part of Samba now, but I'll let the
> folks involved there comment further.  

Correct. This has started with Samba 4.2 (and hence ctdb 4.2).
So no need for synchronization here.

Cheers - Michael

> Our other internal libraries release when needed, from the Samba tree,
> and we rely on those versions in the main release. 
> 
> cifs-utils is entirely separate, and has an independent release cycle
> and git tree.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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