Everyone, Here are the plans for getting 3.0 ready for release and the maintainence plans for SAMBA_2_2. Comments welcome.
I would love to see this out sometime during the Fall of this year. Of course, none of this will get done without everyone's help :-) Roadmap to 3.0 -------------- The following features are planned for inclusion in 3.0. This list was compiled based on previous promises during 2.2 development and believed future directions of Samba * Internationalization - The UNICODE support is done. Jeremy thinks we will probably need some auditing and testing before release. * Full Windows NT 4.0 PDC support - Trust relationships - SAM replication These features will allow for full replacement and migration from Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers. Both of these features are partially completed. * Windows 2000 domain client support - Done. * NTLMv2 & Sign/Seal of RPC packets - NTLMv2 should be ok, the sign/seal is yet to be done. * Winbind idmap storage & central idmap repository (for clusters, nfs, etc...) * Winbind working with Samba DC * Group Mapping support (pluggable?) * Printer attribute publishing using 'net' * pluggable passwd support - Done. Other possible feature which may be included depending on time/resources. Probably in later 3.x release. * Background updates of print queue caches * WINS replication * loadable library support for named pipes * non-blocking winbind implementation * Printer attribute publishing via smbd SAMBA_2_2 maintainence ---------------------- The SAMBA_2_2 will only be updated to include fixes for severe bugs or security exploits. All testing will be done against HEAD at this point. No new features/functionality are to added due to the risk of destabilizing the branch. There will be a 2.2.6 release most likely, but all efforts should be concentrated on HEAD. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
