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*Christmas Holidays (Andrew)
*Christmas Holidays (Andrew)


For the 2009 entries, see [[Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2009]]
=Plans for fortnight ending 19 December 2009=
For the 2008 entries, see [[Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2008]]
*Password work completed (Matthias)
==Achievements==
*DRS pair programming with Tridge (Andrew)
**Working on linked attribute replication with AD
**Rework duplicate code into utility functions

=Plans for fortnight ending 5 December 2009=
==Achieved so far==
*Alpha release (Andrew)
*Fixed nasty "primaryGroupToken" crash bug (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 21 November 2009=
*Fix up group membership (Andrew)
**The PAC should not include builtin groups, but the local token must

=Plans for fortnight ending 7 November 2009=
*Fix up Binary+DN format DNs after the Vampire sprint. (Andrew)
**The code developed at the interop event with Microsoft needs some rough edges filed off...

==Achieved so far==
*Finished Dynamic creation of partitions (Andrew)
*Posted implemention of Binary+DN changes, awaiting review (Andrew)
*Reviewed patches by mdw for const and passwords (Andrew)
*Reviewed karminim's prefixmap patches (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 23 October 2009=
*Finish Dynamic creation of partitions (Andrew)

==Achieved so far==
*Dynamic creation of partitions (Andrew)
**Merged many of the pre-requisite patches that are required towards

=Plans for fortnight ending 9 October 2009=

==Achieved so far==
*Dynamic creation of partitions (Andrew)
**Continued work started at plugfest.
*Reproduced DRS replication (Andrew)
**i.e., the things tridge achived at the plugfest.
**Published generalised versions of tridge's helper scripts
*Pair-programming with Tridge on merging his DRS work (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 26 September 2009=
*Implement clever nTSecurityDescriptor update (Matthieu)
*Merge Calin's work into Samba-GTK. (Jelmer)
*Test and Debianize SWAT. (Jelmer)

==Achieved so far==
*Merged outstanding patches. (Jelmer)
*CIFS plugfest (Andrew)
**Merged to common code parts required for a lmhosts implementation in Samba4
**Discussions around LDAP and Kerberos backends for Samba4
**[http://people.samba.org/people/2009/10/05#cifs-2009-conference blog article]
*Kerberos Salting
**Reworked 'join domain' code to always use the python 'set secrets' code
**This ensures we then set saltPrincipal, which was previously incorrect
*Microsoft interop (Andrew)
**Ran Microsoft's LDAP testsuite against Samba4
**Added objectClass hierarchy restrictions
**Added allowed RDN restrictions
**Started 'dynamic partitions' work
**Don't allow creation of 'isDefunct' objectClasses
**Add new module to handle 'lazyCommit' control (ignored for now)
**Handle NULL RDN
**Merge 'relax' control to allow us to specify objectGUID in provision, but ban their specification normally
**Learnt how the online interop environment will be set up
***Should allow us to run the tests remotely.
**Assistance where required for the DRS replication challenge tridge was running

=Plans for fortnight ending 12 September 2009=
*Demonstrate Samba<->Samba replication over DRS (Andrew, tridge)
*Finally import LDB index patches
*More work on the SAMLDB module (Matthias)

==Achieved so far==
*Worked with tridge to: (Andrew)
**Add support for linked attribute replication over DRS
**Fix LDB to be more robust in handling errors in callback-based modules
**Fix failures on older python installs for the 'dcerpc' tests
**Rework LDB and Samba4's modules to correctly handle two-stage commits
*Investigated LDB index performance and proposed patches to fix it
*Implement correct behavior with supportedEnc field in GetDomainInfo rpc (Matthieu)
*Refactor rebuildextendeddn so it can be integrated in main repo (Matthieu)

=Plans for fortnight ending 29 August 2009=
*Finish basic functions for update script (ie. allow updating at least the schema and adding simple objects) (Matthieu)
*Push rebuildextendeddn.py to the central repo (Matthieu)
*Return full ctr6 structure in dcesrv_drsuapi_DsGetNCChanges (Anatoliy)
*Start digging in linked attributes (Anatoliy)
*Test case for "urgent replication" (Kamen)
*Test case for DsGetNCChanges() (Kamen)
==Achieved so far==
*Explanation of Zahari's ACL problem (Andrew)
*Add and improve ldb python wrappers to assist test and conversion script development (Andrew)
*Fix 'show_deleted' module not to linearise the search filter (should improve performance) (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 15 August 2009=
*Really start working on a tool for provision update (mainly due to schema update) (Matthieu)
*Investigate and fix issues with Windows 2008 and Samba4 (as a Windows 2008 level DC) (Andrew)
==Achieved so far==
*Review of Matthias's 'Computer information in AD' patch (Andrew)
**Matthias was finally able to merge his patch!
*More questions to Microsoft (AES key use) (Andrew)
*Create a script (rebuildextendeddn.py) to (re)build extended, usefull for upgrading a long time running setup (Matthieu)

=Plans for fortnight ending 1 August 2009=
*Continue investigation on bug 6273 (unable to access windows 2008 share from XP/Samba4) (Matthieu)
*Start working on a tool for provision update (mainly due to schema update) (Matthieu)
*Display specifiers (Andrew, Matthias)
*Prepare for an alpha with vampire capability (Andrew)
*Add flag to ldb to force canonical form (Andrew)
*Investigate file server bugs (Andrew)
*Investigate domain trusts again (Andrew)
==Achieved so far==
*Computer informations in AD (Matthias)
*Nested groups (Matthias)
*Forwarded question to Microsoft for their comment in Windows 2008 access issue (Andrew)
*Review of Matthias's 'Computer information in AD' patch (Andrew)
*Fixed Zahari's segfault in his python wrapper for libnet_ChangePassword (Andrew)
*Implemented 'net export keytab' to extract a keytab from a Samba4 DC (Andrew)
*Fixed a number of trivial failures in Samba4's 'make test' (Andrew)
**This should make real bugs easier to see
*Fix provision on FreeBSD (Andrew)
*Find core problem for bug 6273, proposed a patch (Matthieu)

=Plans for fortnight ending 18 July 2009=

*Prepare for an alpha with vampire capability (Andrew)
*Add flag to ldb to force canonical form (Andrew)
**This is things such as making large 32 bit integers negative, sids always to binary etc
*Research possibilities how to use Kerberos from within Python code (Zahari)
*Catch up with Andrew Tridgell on replication (Anatoliy, Kamen)
*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)
*Finish debugging the descriptor inheritance (Nadya)
*Define tests for descriptor inheritance to be added to unit tests (Nadya)
*Improve Netlogon dissector in order to drill down on bugs 6272 and 6273 (Matthieu)
*Investigate the problems with Windows 2008 as a SMB client for Windows XP bug 6272 (Matthieu)

==Achieved so far==
*Found the problem for bug 6272, issued a patch that should be integrated by Heimdal (Matthieu)
*Netlogon dissector of wireshark is now able to decrypt schannel encrypted dialogs, patch sent to samba-technical for comments (Matthieu)
*Found and fixed python and ldb/talloc issues shown up by nTsecurityDescriptor test by Zahari (Andrew)
*Fixed Windows7 Join against Samba4 (Andrew)
**It was failing for the 'add' case.
*Finalize schemaUpdateNow patch and test(Anatoliy)
**It does not break possibleInferiors test and the schema update is ok now
**We should focus on schema consistency checker at some point
*Make Samba4 report Windows 2008 functional level by default (Andrew)
*Update to current Heimdal again (as patches have been accepted) (Andrew)
*Sort out issues with various tests (schemaUpdateNow etc) and get outstanding patches applied (Andrew)
*Working with NTP.org community to finally integrate the MS-SNTP signing of NTP replies (Andrew)
*Discussions with Microsoft to get 'Display specifiers' released under an acceptable licence (Andrew)
**This should allow an import into Samba4

=Plans for fortnight ending 4 July 2009=
*Sort out nTsecurityDescriptor problems from Zahari (Andrew)
*Work with summer of code students (Andrew)

==Achieved so far==
*Worked with tridge to show DRS replication from windows works again (Andrew)
*Applied patch queue from Matthias (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 20 June 2009=
*Improve automated setup of OpenLDAP backend (Andrew)
*Finish subunit separation (Jelmer)
*Maybe WMI..
==Achieved so far==
*Samba4 alpha (Andrew)
*Heimdal merge (Andrew)
*Fixing Python rpcecho test and Python ldb test
*Work with Don Davis on Samba4's Kerberos lib requirements (Andrew)

=Plans for fortnight ending 6 June 2009=
*rpcecho.python test (Jelmer)
*Attempt Heimdal merge (Andrew)
*More work on Kerberos requirements (Andrew)
==Achived so far==
*Documentation of Kerberos requirements (in particular requiremnts that a MIT Kerberos swich would require) (Andrew with Don Davis)
*Fix SAMR tests (Andrew)
*Fix build with older libnet on Fedora 10
*LDB performance issues with many users (Andrew and Tridge)
*Unique indexes in LDB (Andrew and Tridge)
*Fixed one-level indexes in LDB (Andrew and Tridge)
*Worked with Howard Chu to chase down nasty crash bugs in OpenLDAP under Samba4's 'make test'

=Plans for fortnight ending 23 May 2009=
*Rework Samba4 DC to support only one realm at a time (Andrew)
**This is not related to trusted domains, but to how we look at our database
*Fix krbtgt expiry causing kpasswd account to be disabled (Andrew)
==Achieved so far==
*'make test' failures with OpenLDAP backend (Andrew)
**Reproduced on current code
**Fedora 11 VM prepared and supplied to Howard Chu for further investigation
*str_list code (Andrew)
**str_list_make_v3 added to Samba3 while I was away
**Investigate why this 'v3' version is required
**Add unit tests for all aspects of 'common' str_list behaviour
**Attempt (but not committed) to re-merge all the str_list code

=Plans for fortnight ending 9 May 2009=
==Achieved so far==
*Documentation build system improvements (Jelmer)
**Changed the docs build system to use dblatex rather than db2latex
**Remove cruft from docs
=Plans for fortnight ending 25 April 2009=
*SambaXP conference
**Samba4 status report presentation
**Samba4 and Microsoft presentation
==Achieved so far==
*libcli/auth merge (without ldb and Samba3 server-side components) (Andrew)
*Fix RPC python tests (Andrew, Jelmer)

=Plans for fortnight ending 11 April 2009=
==Achieved so far==
*Use Full WSPP Microsoft schema in Samba4 (Andrew and Tridge)
**Required a lot of work to make ldb more efficient with a full set of schema
**Create and test possibleInferiors attribute for AD schema
**Integrate work by Sreepathi Pai to convert the WSPP schema into LDIF for the provision
*Prepare merge of charcnv code
**Required cutting down patch from all code to just sharing a common API

=Plans for fortnight ending 28 March 2009=
*Improve the implementation of netr_DsRGetDCNameEx2 (Andrew)
*Include full AD schema when permitted by Microsoft to do so (Andrew)
*libcli/auth merge between Samba3 and Samba4 (Andrew)
*charcvn merge between Samba3 and Samba4 (Andrew)
*libregistry merge (Jelmer)
*Samba3 DCE/RPC async (Jelmer)
*WMI (Jelmer)
*Fix kpasswd when the krbtgt account has expired (Andrew)
==Achived so far==
*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)

=Plans for fortnight ending 14 March 2009=
*Improve the implementation of netr_DsRGetDCNameEx2 (Andrew)
*Include full AD schema when permitted by Microsoft to do so (Andrew)
==Achieved so far==
*Proposal for fixes for the 'wrong UID' problem with recursion to a new event context in the VFS layer
*Improve performance of Samba will a full schema (Andrew)
=Plans for fortnight ending 27 February=
==Achieved so far==
*Release of alpha7 (Andrew)
*Work on the trusted domains and IPA proposal (Andrew)
*Remove dependency of GENSEC on the Samba4 auth subsystem (Andrew)
*Travel plans for SambaXP (Andrew)
*Work with Microsoft on importing the full AD schema
=Plans for fortnight ending 13 February 2009=
*Prepare alpha7
*Prepare proposal for linking IPA with AD via Samba4 (Andrew)
*Windows7 join to Samba4
**Work to add the AES schannel type
**Fix Samba4 to accept Windows 7 joins
==Achieved so far==
*Phone call with Microsoft over Windows 7 and Samba issues (Andrew)
*Initial work on IPA proposal (Andrew)
**See http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Proposal_for_IPA_to_AD_trust

=Plans for fortnight ending 24 January 2009=
*More work reintegrating WMI (Jelmer)
*Finish full epmapper implementation (Jelmer)
*Fix random failures of samba4.ldb.python tests (Jelmer)
*Use subunit in submissions to the buildfarm (Jelmer)
==Achieved so far==
*Alpha 6 ! (Andrew, Jelmer)
=Plans for fortnight ending 10 January 2009=

For 2008 plans, see [[Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2008]]

Revision as of 08:19, 30 September 2010

Plans for fortnight ending 11th October 2010

  • Work on supporting waf in Heimdal (Jelmer)
  • Resolve circular links issues in waf for Debian package (Jelmer)
  • Integrate land.py and autobuild.py (Jelmer)

Achievements

Plans for fortnight ending 27th September 2010

Achievements

  • Merge some of Wilco's registry patches (Jelmer)
  • Avoid aborting on environment setup problems without printing proper subunit errors (Jelmer)
  • Release alpha13 (Jelmer)
  • Several selftest improvements (running individual tests) (Jelmer)
  • Uploaded newer versions to Sid (Jelmer)
  • Support for aborting selftest early on failure (Tridge, Jelmer)

Plans for fortnight ending 19th July 2010

  • Start hacking around MS-BKRP aka protected storage (Matthieu)

Achievements

  • Made a page about 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)

Plans for fortnight ending 5th July 2010

  • Make upgradeprovision able to change synchronize msds-keyversionnumber (Matthieu)
  • Start hacking around 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)

Plans for fortnight ending 5 June 2010

  • Make the whole redesign of upgradeprovision go in Master (Matthieu)
  • Develop more unit tests around upgradeprovision (Matthieu)

Achievements

Plans for fortnight ending 22 May 2010

  • Make client DFS referral support for sysvol go in Master (Matthieu)
  • 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

Plans for fortnight ending 24 Apr 2010

SambaXP!

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.

Plans for fortnight ending 30 January 2010

Achievements

  • Successful presentation at linux.conf.au Sysadmin mini-conf (Andrew)
  • Holiday on South Island of NZ (Andrew)

Plans for fortnight ending 16 January 2010

Achievements

  • Samba4 Alpha 11 release (Andrew)
  • DRS pair programming with Tridge (Andrew)
  • Preparation for linux.conf.au SysAdmin mini-conf presentation

Plans for fortnight ending 2 January 2010

Achievements

  • DRS pair programming with Tridge (Andrew)
    • Success with replicating with Windows 2008 again (mostly Tridge)
  • Christmas Holidays (Andrew)

For the 2009 entries, see Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2009 For the 2008 entries, see Samba4/Andrew_and_Jelmers_Fantasy_Page/2008