From: itu...@levels.unisa.edu.au
Subject: Announce: Samba code freeze, Samba Survey 
Date: 1996/04/15
Message-ID: <1996Apr15.213810.25219@levels.unisa.edu.au>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 147937377
organization: University of South Australia
newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb

Summary
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Samba continues to be very sucessful. Like any successful product there are
problems simply because of the very large number of people and site involved.
To help manage this, Andrew Tridgell and his helpers are announcing three
things:

        1) code freeze until about June 1st, 1996
        2) user survey at http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/survey/
        3) planning for version 2.0

Samba users and developers can help by:

        1) finding bugs in 1.9.16 and submitting patches
        2) filling out the survey. This is very important for the
           whole Samba community
        3) contributing to the planning for version 2.0 by making
           comments on the survey form or sending mail to samba-bugs


Details
=======

Until about June 1st, 1996 Samba is having a code freeze. The aim is to make
version 1.9.16 completely stable with its current features. There are still
patches to integrate from many sources, and each patch requires a fresh round
of testing. Documentation should also benefit from a short pause in new
development.

In the meantime Andrew Tridgell is thinking hard about what new directions
Samba should be taking. There are some regular feature requests such as
primary domain controller ability for an NT/LAN Server/Pathworks etc domain,
fax support. There are some new things made possible by work in progress, for
example the portable library of smb functions may lead to portable smbfs and
a reorganisation of samba code. Finally there are other integration
possibilities that have not been explored much at all with samba so far, such
as interfaces to kerberos, dce, email standards. You are invited to
contribute via the survey page and email to samba-b...@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au.

Have your say, influence Samba 2.0. If you have network development skills
to offer you can be sure that there is something for you to do!

Please respond to the Samba list, or the samba-bugs alias. For general
Samba information see http://lake.canberra.edu.au/samba.

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 Dan Shearer                            email: Dan.Shea...@UniSA.edu.au
 Information Technology Unit            Phone: +61 8 302 3479
 University of South Australia          Fax  : +61 8 302 3385