Samba 4.5.0rc4 or final?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 10:56 +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:52:28 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld
> <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Am 06.09.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Stefan Metzmacher:
> > > I'm wondering if there's anything worth waiting for,
> > > before we release 4.5.0.  
> 
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12204
> > would be great if it could be finalized and be part of 4.5.0.
> > It already has a working patch (thanks, Andrew) attached, but needs
> > some
> > more attention. If this gets into 4.5.0, a 2012 DC is able to join
> > a
> > Samba AD and does not break the replication any more.
> > 
> > I already prepared a documentation about joining 2012. It's not
> > straight
> > forward and you have to pay attention to some things. However it's
> > working with a few additional steps. I spend some nights working on
> > figuring everything out, did a lot of testing and providing logs to
> > Andrew, etc.
> > 
> > If the patch could be finalized and get into 4.5.0, it would be
> > great. I
> > have a prepared test environment for that scenario here and can
> > test
> > patches in the short term.
> 
> Given that this doesn't appear to be a regression, is it the sort of
> thing we can mention in the release notes and target to 4.5.1?
> 
> peace & happiness,
> martin

Marc,

I know it seems unreasonable, but the background is that we used to
delay releases for 'critical' bugs and 'important' features.  It didn't
end well - we just delayed releases and kept on piling in more stuff
during the RC period.

This particular issue didn't make it in time, but failure to apply a
schema simply because it changed more than 133 objects at a time is a
bug, and we can fix it and backport the result.  (The standards are the
same for a fix after the release, perhaps even just a little more
relaxed, then during the RC period). 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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