[OpenAFS] rought timeline for 1.4.x

[Michael Niksch]

 > No stable cross-platform release. Well, either they're all one
 > platform or they aren't. So you either said it already, or not.

What I mean by "stable cross-platform release" is a single 
openafs-1.4.0-src.tar.gz that can be successfully configured, made, and 
run on all supported platforms - as opposed to something like "if you 
have platform X, read through openafs-devel to find that you need to 
download patches from URL Y, tweak them a bit as they are actually meant 
for 1.3.99, apply, configure, make (but be sure to compile ab.c with 
optimization turned off), and copy cfgafs manually to the dest tree as 
it gets erroneously commented out in the Makefile when configuring for 
your platform".

Don't get me wrong, I am well aware that many people already do a great 
job by just identifying such bugs and finding solutions to them. It's 
just that, eventually, those solutions also need to make it into actual 
releases if people are to experience OpenAFS as a mature piece of 
software. It will always be an issue to port OpenAFS to new platforms, 
but I bet this will be a lot easier if starting with reasonably clean 
code for the existing ones.

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