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  58 <h3>Roadmap to 3.0</h3>
  59 <p><em>Page Last Updated</em> : $Date: 2003/01/16 02:20:24 $</em>
  60 <p><em>Estimated shipdate</em> : When it is ready.
  61 <p><em>Current Alpha Release</em> : <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/alpha/samba-3.0alpha20.tar.gz">Samba-3.0alpha20</a>
  62 <p><em>Goals for 3.0alpha21 Release</em> :
  63 <ul>
  64   <li>Produce RPMs for next alpha snapshot
  65 </ul>
  66
  67 <h3>Road to 3.0</h3>
  68
  69 <ul>
  70   <li>(26th Sept, 2002) <em>SAMBA_3_0 cvs branch</em>
  71   <p>With the release of 3.0alpha20, the SAMBA_3_0 cvs branch is now being
  72   officially maintained in an effort to stablize certain features.  If you would
  73   like to continue to test the soon-to-be-3.0 codease, please use this branch
  74   tag when checking out the cvs tree.
  75 </ul>
  76
  77 <h3>Roadmap Overview</h3>
  78
  79 <p>This is a feature list/roadmap for the 3.0 release.  A lot of discussion
  80 has gone on about this.  Implementation is a separate discussion :-)
  81 If a feature is already done, I marked it as "Req".  It should be obvious
  82 from this roadmap that one the major hurdles for releasing the 3.0 code base
  83 is the completion of documentation updates.
  84
  85 <ul>
  86   <li>X = done
  87   <li>o = TODO
  88   <li>- = unknown
  89 </ul>
  90
  91 <p>
  92 Some features have been through basic testing that have
  93 <b>o</b>'s beneath testing column since we are not done.
  94 Items are ordered by maturity, not by importance.  If it
  95 is marked as <em>Required</em>, then it must be completed
  96 for a stable 3.0 release.
  97
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  99 <table border="0" width="100%">
 100   <tr>
 101     <td width=50%><h3>Feature</h3></td>
 102     <td align=center><h3>Required?</h3></td>
 103     <td align=center><h3>Code</h3></td>
 104     <td align=center><h3>Test</h3></td>
 105     <td align=center><h3>Document</h3></td>
 106   </tr>
 107
 108   <tr>
 109     <td><em><u>Release Delaying Features</u></em></td>
 110   </tr>
 111
 112   <tr>
 113     <td width=50%>UNICODE support</td>
 114     <td align=center>yes</td>
 115     <td align=center>X</td>
 116     <td align=center>X</td>
 117     <td align=center>o</td>
 118   </tr>
 119
 120   <tr>
 121     <td width=50%>Windows 2000 AD client support</td>
 122     <td align=center>yes</td>
 123     <td align=center>X</td>
 124     <td align=center>X</td>
 125     <td align=center>o</td>
 126   </tr>
 127
 128   <tr>
 129     <td width=50%>winbind dual-daemon implementation</td>
 130     <td align=center>yes</td>
 131     <td align=center>X</td>
 132     <td align=center>X</td>
 133     <td align=center>o</td>
 134   </tr>
 135
 136   <tr>
 137     <td width=50%>pluggable passdb support</td>
 138     <td align=center>yes</td>
 139     <td align=center>X</td>
 140     <td align=center>X</td>
 141     <td align=center>o</td>
 142   </tr>
 143
 144   <tr>
 145     <td width=50%>Windows NT 4.0 Style Trust Relationship</td>
 146     <td align=center>yes</td>
 147     <td align=center>X</td>
 148     <td align=center>o</td>
 149     <td align=center>o</td>
 150   </tr>
 151
 152   <tr>
 153     <td width=50%>NTLMv2</td>
 154     <td align=center>yes</td>
 155     <td align=center>X</td>
 156     <td align=center>o</td>
 157     <td align=center>o</td>
 158   </tr>
 159
 160   <tr>
 161     <td width=50%>One Time Migration script from a Windows NT
 162       4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC</td>
 163     <td align=center>yes</td>
 164     <td align=center>X</td>
 165     <td align=center>o</td>
 166     <td align=center>o</td>
 167   </tr>
 168
 169   <tr>
 170     <td width=50%>Winbind working with Samba PDC</td>
 171     <td align=center>yes</td>
 172     <td align=center>X</td>
 173     <td align=center>o</td>
 174     <td align=center>o</td>
 175   </tr>
 176
 177   <tr>
 178     <td width=50%>Loadable RPC implementations</td>
 179     <td align=center>yes</td>
 180     <td align=center>o</td>
 181     <td align=center>o</td>
 182     <td align=center>o</td>
 183   </tr>
 184
 185   <tr>
 186     <td width=50%>hook for utilizing a centralized winbindd id map database</td>
 187     <td align=center>yes</td>
 188     <td align=center>o</td>
 189     <td align=center>o</td>
 190     <td align=center>o</td>
 191   </tr>
 192
 193   <tr>
 194     <td width=50%>Group Mapping support(privileges need some work, etc...)</td>
 195     <td align=center>yes</td>
 196     <td align=center>o</td>
 197     <td align=center>o</td>
 198     <td align=center>o</td>
 199   </tr>
 200
 201   <tr>
 202     <td><em><u>Non-Release Delaying Features</u></em></td>
 203   </tr>
 204
 205   <tr>
 206     <td width=50%>Stackable VFS</td>
 207     <td align=center>no</td>
 208     <td align=center>X</td>
 209     <td align=center>o</td>
 210     <td align=center>o</td>
 211   </tr>
 212
 213   <tr>
 214     <td width=50%>Publishing printers in AD (probably will make 3.0 but will not delay release)</td>
 215     <td align=center>no</td>
 216     <td align=center>o</td>
 217     <td align=center>o</td>
 218     <td align=center>o</td>
 219   </tr>
 220
 221   <tr>
 222     <td width=50%>SAM replication (full implementation still lacks
 223       some decoding work; post 3.0)</td>
 224     <td align=center>no</td>
 225     <td align=center>-</td>
 226     <td align=center>-</td>
 227     <td align=center>-</td>
 228   </tr>
 229
 230   <tr>
 231     <td width=50%>SMB signing (needs more research; not a show stopper)</td>
 232     <td align=center>no</td>
 233     <td align=center>-</td>
 234     <td align=center>-</td>
 235     <td align=center>-</td>
 236   </tr>
 237
 238   <tr>
 239     <td width=50%>schannel, ntlmv2 sign &amp; seal (needs more research)</td>
 240     <td align=center>no</td>
 241     <td align=center>-</td>
 242     <td align=center>-</td>
 243     <td align=center>-</td>
 244   </tr>
 245
 246 </table>
 247
 248
 249 <p>
 250 Plus the following interesting, but non-show stopping projects
 251
 252 <ul>
 253   <li>background updates of print queues via a dedicated process
 254   <li>WINS replication with Windows NT WINS servers
 255   <li>alternative backend for WINS database
 256 </ul>
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