Hi all, As we get closer and closer to being ready to branch for a 1.8 release series, it is time for us to be shifting our focus away from the development of new features towards stabilizing the tree and preparing for the release. There has been some previous discussion of this shift, but no formal feature freeze cutoff, which is remedied now.
New features submitted to gerrit after 13 September will be marked as -2, "not for 1.8". Bugfixes and work towards 1.8 release goals will still be accepted. [0] We reserve the right to also mark features submitted before the deadline as -2, "not for 1.8" if they are intrusive or disruptive to the tree or do not appear likely to be able to reach a polished state in time for the release. This is not intended to be a deadline before which your new feature that you haven't started yet must be complete, but rather a chance to let existing work be completed, since there was not previously a cutoff date. Being submitted to gerrit before the deadline does not guarantee inclusion in the release. Developers are encouraged to focus on reviewing changes in gerrit that are candidates for inclusion in the release, and to make updates to changes that have been reviewed and need adjustments. Thank you, Ben Kaduk [0] Some release goals which do not currently have candidate changes in gerrit include: making pts supergroups a runtime-configured option instead of a build-time option. Presumably there would be ptserver command-line arguments for "always enable supergroups", "never enable supergroups", and "scan through the database and enable supergroups only if they are already present in the database" (default). making cache managers default to encryption both for traffic to fileservers and to vlservers. converting server processes to use the new softsig from opr instead of the old softsig from util. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
