Developer Documentation

How can I contribute

• Contribution HowTo

• Using Git for Samba Development

• Doing code review

• Active projects

Release planning

• Samba release planning

• Policy on checkins to branches

• Samba Features added/changed (by release)

• Samba Next Goals

Source code

• GitWeb

• v4-0-test (branch for next 4.0.x release)

• v4-0-stable (branch for current 4.0.x release)

• master (current Samba development for future releases)

For more info on available branches, as well how to obtain the sources via a Git client, see the samba.org devel page.

• Official Samba GitHub Mirror

Debugging / Testing

• Writing Torture Tests

• Testing against Windows using WinTest

• Testing development trees

• Debugging individual tests

• Keytab extraction

• Wireshark with keytab to decrypt encrypted traffic

• How to test the Linux kernel client against Samba

• Saving packets that failed to parse to test IDL fixes using ndrdump

Bug reporting

• Bug reporting HowTo

• Packet capturing

Presentations

• Presentations about Samba, including slides and papers

VFS

• Writing a Samba VFS
• The new version of Writing a Samba VFS (for Samba 3.6 and earlier)
• Writing a Samba VFS Module (for Samba 4.0 and above)

Clustered Samba

• Clustered Samba

• CTDB Project

Building Samba

• Building Samba 4 (Which build system to use and why)

• Using waf to Build Samba

Building packages

• Building Debian Packages of Samba 4

Google Summer of Code

• Google Summer of Code

• Samba SoC page

• SoC Samba project ideas

Historical Documentation on the Development of Samba4

• Samba4 DRS ToDo List

• Samba 4 Status

• Franky: A Hybrid Samba Active Directory Controller (outdated!)

• An Explanation of the s3fs Architecture for Using smbd in the AD Server

• Development Resources

• Test Status

• Gtk+ Frontends

• Active Directory Plans

• LDAP Directory Server Backend History Notes

• Samba 4 AD Plugfest 2010 TODO List

• Development Releases of Samba4 (technology previews, alphas, betas, release candidates)