[OpenAFS-devel] Road map, was Proposal for capabilities support in Unix client 1.4.x

[Hartmut Reuter]

Hi,

for our site, DESY, and for sites playing with the idea to deploy
OpenAFS/RxOSD it would be helpful to find a notion about this project in
the road map.

I understand and accept that OpenAFS/RxOSD will not appear in any 1.4.x
release because it is too big a change. But I would like to see a
statement that it will be integrated in 1.6 and I also would like to see
a time frame for this.

Several sites in the HEP community see OpenAFS/RxOSD (especially with
addition of the /vicep-access stuff) as an alternative to the presently
used storage systems which either aren't mountable file systems or are
accessible only locally. But as long as OpenAFS/RxOSD seems to be only a
private extension to OpenAFS by our site and DESY they are reluctant
even to test it.

Hartmut

Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 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
> 
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