Samba4/Andrew and Jelmers Fantasy Page/2010

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Plans for fortnight ending 3 April 2008

  • Build Farm improvements
    • See if we can use SQLite to get a bit more done
    • make build farm summary page use sqlite
    • host list, by last reported time
    • last reported time on host individual page
    • make build farm send e-mails to dead hosts
  • Finish security=server re-implementation in Samba4
  • Finish ncacn_http implementation

Achieved so far

  • Very useful Visit to Sam's home company for 2 days
    • Chat with principals to encourage them
    • Jelmer prepared WAFS branch for merging
      • Looks like further development will be upstream, which is great
    • Jelmer did some initial work on tests for proxy code
    • Andrew Started work on 'security=server' re-implementation for Samba4
      • This will allow WAFS to hijack an unsigned connection as a man in the middle attack.
    • Andrew fixed 'make test' to fail if PIDL tests fail

Achievements for fortnight ending ending 19 April 2008

SambaXP

  • Successfully gave 3 presentations
    • Samba4 status report (Both)
    • Samba4 and the LDAP backend / Little barber shop of horrors (Andrew)
    • RPC Scripting using Python (Jelmer)
  • Worked with Sam Liddicott
    • He has implemented the start of a WAFS (latency reducing) proxy for Samba4
    • Organised to visit his companies office
  • Improved code coverage to give better 'headline' figure for presentation (Andrew)
    • Working with Kai's winbind work to run metze's structure based tests
    • Kai worked on blackbox tests
    • Required fixing up parts of winbind (untested code is broken code, Andrew)
  • Fixed bugs in Pidl reported by Volker (Jelmer)
  • Added knownfailure support in test code (Jelmer)
  • Split out policy library into separate git repository (Jelmer)
  • Worked with Wilco on more registry tests (Jelmer)
  • Fixed several Python usability bits (Jelmer)
  • Fixed duplication in blackbox tests (Jelmer)
  • Initial work on ncacn_http support (Jelmer)
  • Discussions with Guenther, Michael about reconciling registry, libsmbdotconf and smbdotconf in Samba 3 and 4 (Jelmer)