[OpenAFS-devel] Proposal for capabilities support in Unix client 1.4.x

[Jeffrey Altman]

Felix Frank wrote:

> There were no further objections, so that's what it now does.

Not receiving any further comments is not the same as not receiving
objections.

Your patch should not include the xdr_free() changes.  We already have
a DELTA for those changes.   It is appropriate to state that your patch
is dependent upon DELTA xdr-free-20090401 being pulled to the 1.4 branch.

However, please note that new code such as this is not going to go on
the 1.4 branch.  It is going to go onto the CVS head and incorporated
into 1.5 releases.  As such, patches should be provided against the CVS
head.  The 1.4 release series is "stable".  What that means to most is
that the only code changes that get applied to it from release to
release are:

 * something necessary to fix a bug

 * something necessary to make the code build on a new OS revision

 * something that addresses an operational issue that affects a
   large portion of the user base

RxOSD does not meet any of these criteria.  It would be nice if we
would have the 1.5 series promoted to 1.6 (aka the next "stable")
by the end of the year.

Jeffrey Altman