[OpenAFS] rought timeline for 1.4.x

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Niksch wrote:

>> The thing which is preventing the release of 1.3.7x as a stable 1.4
>> tree is lack of deployment and testing by users.  There has been very
>> little feedback both positive or negative on the existing releases.
>> Without this feedback it is very difficult for us to know whether or
>> not it is ready.
>
> I'd be happy to provide feedback on 1.3.7x for the AIX platform if I could 
> get it to work at all. Unfortunately, it looks like the few developers 
> concerned about AIX never actually compile the release code. It looks more

No AIX 5 system so, no. I compile for AIX 4.3.3, because that's what I 
have. And it's running there modulo a few patches more recent than I have 
tested because the system was down and I was away.

> like they have different variants of CVS snapshots plus their personal set of 
> patches that rarely make it back into the source tree. I am not sure how

Well, I diffed Hartmut's tree and we had everything I could find.

> development for other platforms is done, but if it works in a similar way, I 
> doubt we will ever see a stable cross-platform release again. I don't want to 
> blame the AIX folks or anyone else in particular for this. I can't tell whose 
> fault it is, I just know something is going wrong.

So Solaris, Linux, Darwin are all one platform now? Is that platform 
"Unix"? ;-)