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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 18 July= | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 11th October 2010= |
− | *Make Samba4 report Windows 2008 functional level by default (Andrew) | + | * Work on supporting waf in Heimdal (Jelmer) |
− | *Update to current Heimdal again (as patches have been accepted) (Andrew) | + | * Resolve circular links issues in waf for Debian package (Jelmer) |
− | *Sort out issues with various tests (schemaUpdateNow etc) and get outstanding patches applied (Andrew) | + | * Integrate land.py and autobuild.py (Jelmer) |
− | *Prepare for an alpha with vampire capability (Andrew) | + | ==Achievements== |
− | *Add flag to ldb to force canonical form (Andrew) | + | * Removed circular dependencies (Jelmer) |
− | **This is things such as making large 32 bit integers negative, sids always to binary etc | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 27th September 2010= |
− | *Research possibilities how to use Kerberos from within Python code (Zahari) | + | ==Achievements== |
− | *Catch up with Andrew Tridgell on replication (Anatoliy, Kamen) | + | *Merge some of Wilco's registry patches (Jelmer) |
− | *Communicate with Microsoft to establish the correct nTSecurityDescriptors for the partitions in a clean installation, how is the defaultSecurityDescriptor used, how the default DACL of a security token is created, and the function of the extended rights (Nadya)
| + | *Avoid aborting on environment setup problems without printing proper subunit errors (Jelmer) |
− | *Finish debugging the descriptor inheritance (Nadya) | + | *Release alpha13 (Jelmer) |
− | *Define tests for descriptor inheritance to be added to unit tests (Nadya) | + | *Several selftest improvements (running individual tests) (Jelmer) |
| + | *Uploaded newer versions to Sid (Jelmer) |
| + | *Support for aborting selftest early on failure (Tridge, Jelmer) |
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| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 19th July 2010= |
| + | *Start hacking around [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc224123%28v=PROT.13%29.aspx MS-BKRP] aka protected storage (Matthieu) |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | * Made a page about [[UpgradeprovisionPlans | upgradeprovision plans]] (Matthieu) |
| + | * Finished all the patches about upgradeprovision to keep up with the pace of current development (Matthieu) |
| + | * Add options to net to manipulate service principal names (a bit like addspn): net spn (Matthieu) |
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| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 5th July 2010= |
| + | *Make upgradeprovision able to change synchronize msds-keyversionnumber (Matthieu) |
| + | *Start hacking around [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc224123%28v=PROT.13%29.aspx MS-BKRP] aka protected storage (Matthieu) |
| + | *Review Andrews s3compat auth patches. (Jelmer) |
| + | *Infrastructure for testing net from within Python. (Jelmer) |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *Make upgradeprovision is now able to change synchronize msds-keyversionnumber (Matthieu) |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 19 June 2010= |
| + | *Upload Debian packages (Jelmer) |
| + | *Fix build against system Heimdal (Jelmer) |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *More Python cleanups (Jelmer) |
| + | *Fix Samba 4 build to install everything necessary for OpenChange again (Jelmer) |
| + | *Review Matthieu's patches (Jelmer) |
| + | *Push major update for upgradeprovision both in terms of update capacity and reliability (Matthieu) |
| + | *Use standard python logging infrastructure in Python code (Jelmer) |
| + | *Re-upload Debian packages based on waf build (Jelmer) |
| + | *Started [[MergeRequests]] page (Jelmer) |
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− | ==Achieved so far== | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 5 June 2010= |
− | *Found and fixed python and ldb/talloc issues shown up by nTsecurityDescriptor test by Zahari (Andrew) | + | *Make the whole redesign of upgradeprovision go in Master (Matthieu) |
− | *Fixed Windows7 Join against Samba4 (Andrew) | + | *Develop more unit tests around upgradeprovision (Matthieu) |
− | **It was failing for the 'add' case. | + | ==Achievements== |
− | *Finalize schemaUpdateNow patch and test(Anatoliy) | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 22 May 2010= |
− | **It does not break possibleInferiors test and the schema update is ok now | + | *Make client DFS referral support for sysvol go in Master (Matthieu) |
− | **We should focus on schema consistency checker at some point | + | *Develop torture test for DFS (at least for the domain referral part) (Matthieu) |
| + | *Make the whole redesign of upgradeprovision go in Master (Matthieu) |
| + | *Develop more unit tests around upgradeprovision (Matthieu) |
| + | *Merged some waf patches from Thomas. (Jelmer) |
| + | *Cherry-picked some of the patches I pair-programmed with Matthieu during SambaXP (Jelmer) |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *DFS responses to client referral request are ok for Domain, DC and SYSVOL/NETLOGON (Matthieu) |
| + | *Torture tests ok (Matthieu) |
| + | *Update Debian packages for talloc, tdb, ldb and tevent. (Jelmer) |
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 4 July= | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 24 Apr 2010= |
− | *Sort out nTsecurityDescriptor problems from Zahari (Andrew) | + | SambaXP! |
− | *Work with summer of code students (Andrew) | + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *Played with the waf build (Jelmer) |
| + | *Pair-programmed on upgradeprovision unit tests (Jelmer, Matthieu) |
| + | *Initial Python bindings for libpolicy (Jelmer) |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 10 Apr 2010= |
| + | Slacking |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 27 Mar 2010= |
| + | Slacking. |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 13 Mar 2010= |
| + | Slacking. |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 27 Feb 2010= |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *More work to automate the correct setup of BIND for DNS (Andrew) |
| + | *Work with tridge to demonstrate 'waf' as a build system for Samba (Andrew) |
| + | =Plans for fortnight ending 13 Feb 2010= |
| + | ==Achievements== |
| + | *Work with Tridge on Samba HOWTO (Andrew) |
| + | *More work to automate the correct setup of BIND for DNS (Andrew) |
| + | *Improve Samba4 RPC proxy to handle a non-zero if_version (Andrew) |
| + | **This is needed to ensure we proxy the full if_version from an RPC bind to the endpoint mapper and subsequent bind on another RPC server. |
| + | **Add testsuite to ensure the RPC proxy (rpc_server/remote) does not bitrot further. |
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− | ==Achieved so far== | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 30 January 2010= |
− | *Worked with tridge to show DRS replication from windows works again (Andrew) | + | ==Achievements== |
− | *Applied patch queue from Matthias (Andrew) | + | *Successful presentation at linux.conf.au Sysadmin mini-conf (Andrew) |
| + | *Holiday on South Island of NZ (Andrew) |
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 20 June= | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 16 January 2010= |
− | *Improve automated setup of OpenLDAP backend (Andrew)
| + | ==Achievements== |
− | *Finish subunit separation (Jelmer)
| + | *Samba4 Alpha 11 release (Andrew) |
− | *Maybe WMI..
| + | *DRS pair programming with Tridge (Andrew) |
− | ==Achieved so far== | + | *Preparation for linux.conf.au SysAdmin mini-conf presentation |
− | *Samba4 alpha (Andrew) | |
− | *Heimdal merge (Andrew)
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− | *Fixing Python rpcecho test and Python ldb test
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− | *Work with Don Davis on Samba4's Kerberos lib requirements (Andrew)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 6 June=
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− | *rpcecho.python test (Jelmer)
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− | *Attempt Heimdal merge (Andrew)
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− | *More work on Kerberos requirements (Andrew)
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− | ==Achived so far==
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− | *Documentation of Kerberos requirements (in particular requiremnts that a MIT Kerberos swich would require) (Andrew with Don Davis)
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− | *Fix SAMR tests (Andrew)
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− | *Fix build with older libnet on Fedora 10
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− | *LDB performance issues with many users (Andrew and Tridge)
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− | *Unique indexes in LDB (Andrew and Tridge)
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− | *Fixed one-level indexes in LDB (Andrew and Tridge)
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− | *Worked with Howard Chu to chase down nasty crash bugs in OpenLDAP under Samba4's 'make test'
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 23 May=
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− | *Rework Samba4 DC to support only one realm at a time (Andrew)
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− | **This is not related to trusted domains, but to how we look at our database
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− | *Fix krbtgt expiry causing kpasswd account to be disabled (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *'make test' failures with OpenLDAP backend (Andrew)
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− | **Reproduced on current code
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− | **Fedora 11 VM prepared and supplied to Howard Chu for further investigation
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− | *str_list code (Andrew)
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− | **str_list_make_v3 added to Samba3 while I was away
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− | **Investigate why this 'v3' version is required
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− | **Add unit tests for all aspects of 'common' str_list behaviour
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− | **Attempt (but not committed) to re-merge all the str_list code
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 9 May=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Documentation build system improvements (Jelmer)
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− | **Changed the docs build system to use dblatex rather than db2latex
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− | **Remove cruft from docs
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 25 April=
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− | *SambaXP conference
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− | **Samba4 status report presentation
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− | **Samba4 and Microsoft presentation
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *libcli/auth merge (without ldb and Samba3 server-side components) (Andrew)
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− | *Fix RPC python tests (Andrew, Jelmer)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 11 April=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Use Full WSPP Microsoft schema in Samba4 (Andrew and Tridge)
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− | **Required a lot of work to make ldb more efficient with a full set of schema
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− | **Create and test possibleInferiors attribute for AD schema
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− | **Integrate work by Sreepathi Pai to convert the WSPP schema into LDIF for the provision
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− | *Prepare merge of charcnv code
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− | **Required cutting down patch from all code to just sharing a common API
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 28 March=
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− | *Improve the implementation of netr_DsRGetDCNameEx2 (Andrew)
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− | *Include full AD schema when permitted by Microsoft to do so (Andrew)
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− | *libcli/auth merge between Samba3 and Samba4 (Andrew)
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− | *charcvn merge between Samba3 and Samba4 (Andrew)
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− | *libregistry merge (Jelmer)
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− | *Samba3 DCE/RPC async (Jelmer)
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− | *WMI (Jelmer)
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− | *Fix kpasswd when the krbtgt account has expired (Andrew)
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− | ==Achived so far==
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− | *Pair programming of restoring minschema to operation | |
− | *Implementation (with Tridge) of UID handling for recursion to a new event context in the VFS layer (Andrew)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 14 March=
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− | *Improve the implementation of netr_DsRGetDCNameEx2 (Andrew)
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− | *Include full AD schema when permitted by Microsoft to do so (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Proposal for fixes for the 'wrong UID' problem with recursion to a new event context in the VFS layer
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− | *Improve performance of Samba will a full schema (Andrew)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 27 February=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Release of alpha7 (Andrew)
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− | *Work on the trusted domains and IPA proposal (Andrew)
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− | *Remove dependency of GENSEC on the Samba4 auth subsystem (Andrew)
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− | *Travel plans for SambaXP (Andrew)
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− | *Work with Microsoft on importing the full AD schema
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 13 February=
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− | *Prepare alpha7
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− | *Prepare proposal for linking IPA with AD via Samba4 (Andrew)
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− | *Windows7 join to Samba4
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− | **Work to add the AES schannel type
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− | **Fix Samba4 to accept Windows 7 joins
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Phone call with Microsoft over Windows 7 and Samba issues (Andrew)
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− | *Initial work on IPA proposal (Andrew)
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− | **See http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Proposal_for_IPA_to_AD_trust
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 24 January=
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− | *More work reintegrating WMI (Jelmer)
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− | *Finish full epmapper implementation (Jelmer)
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− | *Fix random failures of samba4.ldb.python tests (Jelmer)
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− | *Use subunit in submissions to the buildfarm (Jelmer)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Alpha 6 ! (Andrew, Jelmer)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 10 January=
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 27 December 2008=
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− | *Trusted domains (Andrew)
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− | **Reproduce metze's sucess trusting a Win2k3 domain
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− | **Reproduce metze's issue being trusted by a Samba3 domain
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− | *Make preperations for a alpha release
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− | **Fixing build farm failures (Andrew and Jelmer)
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− | **Testing a 'real' deployment (Andrew)
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− | **Write release notes (Jelmer)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **Pushed into the master branch
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− | *Shared object files for gen_ndr files between Samba 3 and Samba 4 (Jelmer)
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− | *rewrote SWIG-based Python modules in manual C (Jelmer)
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− | *made Samba 4 in merged build use shared libraries when possible (Jelmer)
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− | *fixed several issues building the standalone libraries (Jelmer)
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− | *prepared Debian package of tevents and packaged new versions of talloc, tdb and ldb (Jelmer)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 13 December 2008=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Added interactive mode to setup/provision (Jelmer)
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **Published final patch to list for review
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− | *Use Microsoft's full AD Schema in Samba4 (Andrew)
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− | **Conversion script taken on by Sreepathi Pai
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− | **Working with Microsoft to correct errors in the schema
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 29 November 2008=
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− | ==Archived so far==
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **continued work on implementation and testing
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 15 November 2008=
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− | *Research to check about transitive trusts between AD and MIT realms (Andrew)
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **Needed for Samba3 domain members in a Samba4 domain. | |
− | *Make a Samba4 release
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− | **Needed for OpenChange, and to give users a solid alpha to test
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Increase to tridge's blood pressure (Andrew)
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− | **Tridge and I worked to learn python and start an 'upgrade_samba4' script to assist users who have to re-provision but do not wish to loose data.
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **Posted initial implementation to mailing list for comment
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 1 November 2008=
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− | *Finish 'unicode' password issues with integration of new charset (Andrew)
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− | **The character set conversion needs to change invalid sequences to a known 'bad' value
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− | *Proper Extended DN support (Andrew)
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− | **Needed for Samba3 domain members in a Samba4 domain.
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− | *Unique Index support (Andrew)
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− | **Needed to ensure we don't have more than one 'Administrator' in a domain (for example)
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− | *Allow registration in endpoint mapper (Jelmer)
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− | *ncacn_http (Jelmer)
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− | *Research to check about transitive trusts between AD and MIT realms (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Fix kpasswd server to not 'exit(10)' the whole of Samba (Andrew)
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− | **Found by Apple at the CIFS plugfest
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− | *Reconciled more library code between Samba 3 and 4 (Jelmer)
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− | ** lib/util
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− | ** librpc/gen_ndr
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− | ** librpc/ndr
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− | *Repel pstring to nsswitch/ (Jelmer)
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− | *Move crypt() replacement to libreplace (Jelmer)
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− | *Enable merged-build automatically in developer builds (Jelmer)
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− | *Merged Matthias' registry server improvements (Jelmer)
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− | *Split up selftest code into a Samba4-specific and a generic part (Jelmer)
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− | *Fix blackbox tests on IPv6-only hosts (Jelmer)
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− | *[http://people.samba.org/people/2008/10/22#a-year-since-microsofts-appeal-failed Blog posting] about interopability with Microsoft (Andrew)
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− | **Now found on [http://lwn.net/Articles/304499/ LWN] and [http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/10/23/1441200.shtml Slashdot]
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 18 October 2008=
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− | *Use separate structure for gensec settings (Jelmer)
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− | *Share DEBUG() code between Samba 3 and Samba 4 (Jelmer)
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− | **In preparation of merging my libutil-share branch
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− | *More work getting WMI back to work (Jelmer)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Implement a 'unicode' password pass-down mechanism in LDB
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− | **This fixes domain trust problems where member servers select a compleatly random password
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− | **We still need to fix this for kerberos hash types (awating charset work by tridge)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 4 October 2008=
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− | *Implement a 'unicode' password pass-down mechanism in LDB, or otherwise avoid UCS2 -> UTF8 -> UCS2 problems
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− | *Trusted domain support (LSA and KDC portions) (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Separate out and add tests for Subunit (Jelmer)
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− | *Remove global_loadparm use in a couple more places (Jelmer)
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− | *Restructure some of the installation bits together with Matthias (Jelmer)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 20 september 2008=
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− | *wmi integration (Jelmer)
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− | *hdb_samba4 (Jelmer)
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− | *eliminate last EJS (minschema.js, samba3sam.js (Jelmer))
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− | *Trusted domain support (LSA and KDC portions) (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Committed merged build patch to Samba 3 (Jelmer)
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− | *Made Samba 3 and Samba 4 use the same copy of tdb, talloc, compression, replace, nss_wrapper, socket_wrapper, popt (Jelmer)
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− | *Committed WMI support to the repository (doesn't compile completely yet though) (Jelmer)
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− | *Fixed samba3sam.js and removed remaining JavaScript support. (Jelmer)
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− | *Implemented WSGI standard (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/) support in web_server.
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 6 september 2008=
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− | *wmi integration (Jelmer)
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− | *upload samba-gtk into Debian (Jelmer)
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− | *hdb_samba4 (Jelmer)
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− | *send out patch for merged franky build (Jelmer)
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− | *Use franky build for personal Samba4 development (Andrew)
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− | *eliminate last EJS (minschema.js, samba3sam.js (Jelmer))
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− | *Trusted domain support (LSA and KDC portions) (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Update NTP patch (Andrew)
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− | *Respond to comments and suggestions on RPMs for Fedora (Andrew)
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− | *(partial) Trusted domain support (LSA and KDC portions) (Andrew)
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− | *PAC Verification support over NETLOGON (Andrew)
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− | *Sent out franky merged build patch, more prerequisites fixed for Franky (Jelmer)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 23 august 2008=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | * slacking off (Jelmer)
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− | * Lots of questions to Microsoft on trusted domains and PAC validation (Andrew)
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− | * Build indexes and attributes directly from the schema, not a hard-coded list (Andrew)
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− | * Generate the cn=Aggregate schema in Samba4, rather than in minschema.js
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− | **This prepares us for adding arbitrary schema into Samba4
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− | * Integrate patches for multi-master OpenLDAP configuration (Andrew)
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− | ** This allows a Samba4 provision-backend to create a multi-master backend, without hand-manipulation by the admin
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− | * Start of work on trusted domains
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− | **In our KDC, start with a special case for handling the trusted domains principals
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− | **In the drsblobs.idl, parse the trustAuthIncoming and trustAuthOutgoing blobs
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 9 August 2008=
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− | *Fix AES compatability with Windows 2008/Vista. (Andrew)
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− | **It turns out that Metze was starting to chase the same bug
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− | **The fix is to implement gss_wrap_ex() - ie AEAD, the signing of headers in DCE/RPC packets.
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− | **Earlier 'use Heimdal for SPNEGO' work is forming a very useful basis for this work
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− | *Look at smartcard login again (Andrew)
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− | **Bugs in Dogtag have been allegedly fixed.
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− | *Trusted domains (Andrew)
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− | **Add support for trusted domains in our KDC
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 26 July 2008=
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Fix LDAP backend to be secure (not anonymous access) (Andrew)
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− | *Partially Fix vista join bugs due to AES and GSSAPI CFX (Andrew with Tridge)
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− | **Session keys for smb signing are original length (ie, 32 in this case)
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− | **Session keys for SAMR encryption are 16 (ie, truncated)
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− | **Still need to fix GSSAPI encryption for the AES case (it uses AEAD, as seen in NTLM2)
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− | *Phone calls with Microsoft (Andrew)
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− | **I now have a regular phone hookup with Microsoft to go over pending issues in the WSPP process
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− | *Fix 'file not found' errors from clients (Andrew with Tridge)
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− | **Due to an uninitialised variable, introduced in some recent SMB2 work
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− | **shows up on systems with extended attributes (typically those using SeLinux, such as Fedora)
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− | **Perhaps a good reason to push out a new alpha soon
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 12 July 2008=
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− | *wmi integration (Jelmer)
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− | *upload openchange and samba-gtk into Debian (Jelmer)
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− | *hdb_samba4 (Jelmer)
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− | *eliminate last EJS (minschema.js, samba3sam.js)
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− | *Improve LDAP backend from a technology preview to a deployable system (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Continue packaging of OpenChange and Samba4 for Fedora
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− | *Start work on smart card login (Andrew)
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− | **Including setting up DogTag certificate system (Andrew)
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− | **At least to the stage of the first crashes...
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− | *Rework schema handling to know about auxillary classes (Andrew)
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− | **Try to do this in common between ad2OLschema and the kludge_acl and objectclass modules.
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 28 June 2008= | + | =Plans for fortnight ending 2 January 2010= |
− | *external Heimdal use (Andrew)
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| ==Achievements== | | ==Achievements== |
− | *Created Samba 4 and OpenChange RPM packages (Andrew) | + | *DRS pair programming with Tridge (Andrew) |
− | *test TEST_LDAP=yes (Andrew)
| + | **Success with replicating with Windows 2008 again (mostly Tridge) |
− | *Fixed Franky build for odd make versions (Jelmer)
| + | *Christmas Holidays (Andrew) |
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 14 June 2008=
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− | *Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (Andrew)
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− | *AES Key support (check with docs and Win2008 on format) in samdb (Andrew)
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− | *Work to make ldb merge easier for Simo (andrew) | |
− | *Any work required to merge NTP patch with ntp.org distribution (Andrew) | |
− | *Work with alpha testers on any issues that come up in production deployments of Samba4 (Andrew)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Samba4 alpha4 release (andrew)
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− | **without LDB merge, which seems a while off yet | |
− | *Sync ldap.py test with it's (now obsolete) ldap.js predecessor (andrew)
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− | *Add python bindings for NetBIOS (Jelmer)
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− | *Improve portability of Franky build (Jelmer)
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− | *Asked Microsoft about AES key formats (Andrew)
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− | **Just getting the data from Win2008 failed due to other reasons
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− | *Continued the battle with Microsoft over NTP documentation (Andrew)
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− | *Worked on package of Heimdal for Fedora (Andrew)
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− | **As a preview to packaging Samba4 for Fedora
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 31 May 2008= | + | = Older entries = |
− | *Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (andrew)
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− | *Make a Samba 4.0 alpha4 release if the ldb branch gets merged
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− | http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python-wmi (Jelmer)
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Implement NTP signing (andrew)
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− | **Patch posted to ntp.org for consideration: [http://bugs.ntp.org/1028 NTP bugzilla item with patch]
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− | **ntp_signd now started by default in samba4
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− | *Finish CLDAP and NBT netlogon parsing. (Andrew)
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− | **Including expected value tests (critical to ensuring we return the *right* answer)
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− | **This should help things like Group Policy, which rely on this 'DC ping' functionality
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− | *Merge Simo's ldb branch with current v4-0-test (abartlet)
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− | **Should make Simo's merge task easier.
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− | *Removed smbpython and restructured Python modules hierarchy to not clutter Python namespace (Jelmer)
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− | *Merged improvements made by Wilco and Jelmer to the registry during SambaXP (Jelmer)
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− | *Added documentation to most Python modules and improved descriptions. (Jelmer)
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− | *Fixed memory bug in autogenerated DCE/RPC Python bindings (Jelmer)
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− | *Several test infrastructure improvements. (Jelmer)
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− | **Print full test path for easy inclusion in knownfail lists
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− | **Make test case name part of test name to allow a test to have different results against different test cases
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− | **Set PYTHONPATH during test runs
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− | *Removed unused old EJS DCE/RPC bindings and testscripts (Jelmer)
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− | *Make it easier to use various libraries externally without including all of Samba 4's build system (Jelmer)
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− | *Updated Samba 4, OpenChange and Samba-Gtk Debian packages, now passes lintian. (Jelmer)
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− | ** Announced on the OpenChange website (http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=77)
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− | *Added Python bindings for IRPC / Messaging interfaces (Jelmer)
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− | **Rewrote smbstatus in Python
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− | *Added mechanism for doing "raw" DCE/RPC requests from Python (Jelmer)
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− | **Also initial work on a script that should attempt to figure out IDL by probing
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− | *Exposed more DCE/RPC internals from Python bindings (Jelmer)
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− | *Initial work on [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/ WSGI] implementation in web_server/ (Jelmer)
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− | *Added combined buildsystem for [[Franky]]
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 17 May 2008=
| + | For the 2009 entries, see [[Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2009]]. |
− | *Fix our CLDAP netlogon processing to match description in [MS-ADTS] 7.3.3 (andrew)
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− | **Use this to fix and test group policy handling on Win2000 and WinXP clients
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Partial security=server implementation, awaiting VFS proxy merge for testing (Andrew)
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− | *Removed a large number of dead build farm hosts in response to automated mails (Andrew)
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− | *Brought back old (D)COM code and made it compile again (Jelmer)
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− | *Merged GNU make branch (Jelmer)
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− | **Now allows using system Python with Samba Python modules
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− | *Finished Samba 4 Debian package together with Christian (Jelmer)
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− | *Updated Debian packages for OpenChange and Samba-Gtk (Jelmer)
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− | *Most of the parsing work towards the CLDAP/NBT netlogon consolidation (Andrew)
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− | =Plans for fortnight ending 3 May 2008=
| + | For the 2008 entries, see [[Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2008]]. |
− | *Build Farm improvements
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− | **See if we can use SQLite to get a bit more done
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− | **make build farm summary page use sqlite
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− | **host list, by last reported time
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− | **last reported time on host individual page
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− | *Finish security=server re-implementation in Samba4
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− | *Finish ncacn_http implementation
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− | ==Achieved so far==
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− | *Very useful Visit to Sam's home company for 2 days
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− | **Chat with principals to encourage them
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− | **Jelmer prepared WAFS branch for merging
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− | ***Looks like further development will be upstream, which is great
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− | **Jelmer did some initial work on tests for proxy code
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− | **Andrew Started work on 'security=server' re-implementation for Samba4
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− | ***This will allow WAFS to hijack an unsigned connection as a man in the middle attack.
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− | **Andrew fixed 'make test' to fail if PIDL tests fail
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− | *Build Farm
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− | **make build farm send e-mails to dead hosts (based on SQLite database)
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− | =Achievements for fortnight ending ending 19 April 2008=
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− | ==SambaXP==
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− | *Successfully gave 3 presentations
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− | **Samba4 status report (Both)
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− | **Samba4 and the LDAP backend / Little barber shop of horrors (Andrew)
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− | **RPC Scripting using Python (Jelmer)
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− | *Worked with Sam Liddicott
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− | **He has implemented the start of a WAFS (latency reducing) proxy for Samba4
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− | **Organised to visit his companies office
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− | *Improved code coverage to give better 'headline' figure for presentation (Andrew)
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− | **Working with Kai's winbind work to run metze's structure based tests
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− | **Kai worked on blackbox tests
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− | **Required fixing up parts of winbind (untested code is broken code, Andrew)
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− | *Fixed bugs in Pidl reported by Volker (Jelmer)
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− | *Added knownfailure support in test code (Jelmer)
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− | *Split out policy library into separate git repository (Jelmer)
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− | *Worked with Wilco on more registry tests (Jelmer)
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− | *Fixed several Python usability bits (Jelmer)
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− | *Fixed duplication in blackbox tests (Jelmer)
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− | *Initial work on ncacn_http support (Jelmer)
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− | *Discussions with Guenther, Michael about reconciling registry, libsmbdotconf and smbdotconf in Samba 3 and 4 (Jelmer)
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