[PROPOSAL] Release ldb with Samba on the 6-montly release cycle

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 10:31 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On pe, 03 touko 2019, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:55 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > Basically, my personal opinion is that this situation is pushing
> > > more
> > > unjustified work into hands of our downstream consumers
> > > (vendors).
> > > I'm
> > > not talking about it on behalf of my employer, it is purely my
> > > own
> > > opinion, but I can see this an additional overhead for some.
> > So, perhaps this is a useful approach.  
> > 
> > First, stop tagging ldb versions in master. 
> > 
> > Second, merge MR 374 (which leaves the ability to produce tarballs,
> > and
> > tests this in autobuild, but aligns the version numbers)
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/merge_requests/374
> > 
> > Third, stop producing ldb tarballs in the release process.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced such downstream consumers that have the needs you
> > indicate above exist, but you suggest they do and I'm not sure we
> > have
> > a good way to tell.   So perhaps they do and are forced into such
> > burdens, then I'm sure they will ask and we will know for sure. 
> > 
> > In that case either they can either run 'make dist' themselves or
> > we
> > can, knowing they really exist.
> > 
> > How does that sound?
> I have hard time understanding how all these proposals from you
> differ.

Not very much really, MR 374 is the version number, MR 371 removes the
tarball generation.  It isn't a big change technically, but policy wise
it seems to be a whole different thing. 

> They all seems to hang around the willingness to not produce a proper
> libldb
> tarball at all. 

I'm most concerned not to produce it during master development.

> I think this is where we disagree. A version is a minor
> think in this context, at least to me.

Great, so can you review MR 374 for me?

I'm happy to leave the tarballs as being generated.  There will be a
few more because Samba tarballs come out more often than ldb has in the
past, but as everybody keeps saying, that is just a script to run
during the release.  

I got hung up on avoiding those because of a comment from metze that I
now can't find and may well have imagined. 

I hope we are in agreement now,

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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