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

[Russ Allbery]

Taking off my gatekeeper hat and putting on my Stanford representative
hat:

Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> So, what can be in 1.6 largely falls down to how soon people want it.
> If the above process was to start today, my opinion is that demand
> attach would have to be removed to do so. But, we could do that, if
> there's a desire to get the other features in 1.5 out to an audience
> promptly. So, I think there's an equation that looks something like:
>
> Today: current 1.5 without demand attach
> Later: current 1.5

This is what Stanford would like.  A 1.5 without demand-attach isn't
useful to us, and we want demand-attach fairly badly.  It's going to be
rather annoying for our plans if we make it into 2010 and demand-attach
still isn't available.

After demand-attach, our next highest priority is a new security layer
that supports better encryption types, however we get that.  RxOSD is
interesting, but much lower on our wishlist.

This is purely a statement of institutional priorities for one
institution, not a judgement of how ready various features are or what
the broader community might want.  Please take it as only one data point.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>