Comment Samba Team member view on the SAMBA TNG project (Score 5) 97
When a source code tree forks, there can very easily be misunderstanding and speculations about why the fork occurred and what will happen next.
Luke leighton is a very good friend of mine. He was the Samba team member who helped get me involved with Samba. He still is a very good friend of course. :)
I have talked about this with Sander Striker and some of the others as well. It is important that the goal of the Samba TNG (as stated in the source code fork announcement) is to use the existing TNG code base for a portable dce/rpc library as well as other RPC implementations / research.
So this begs the question, what will happen now?
We all hope to be able to learn from and share ideas/code/jokes with each other. Hopes are that this will free up Luke and others to focus solely of the MS RPC implementation in Windows NT/2000. Samba itself will greatly benefit by being able to take advantage of the effort exerted by the TNG developers. In return, the TNG project will hopefully benefit just as much from the code review process of implementing these same RPCs in Samba. (developers often say it takes 3 - 4 four implementations to get something right :) )
IMO (although I hate code forks as much as anyone), this was a good move for both Samba and the TNG project. I will not be surprised to development of both projects accelerate. Of course, this is only speculation, but I base it on the fact that we all can pursue each projects goals without being held back by trying to be portable to both code trees. This became alomost impossible even before TNG became a separate GPL'd project.
If you are interested in finding out more, I encourage you to view Samba's development roadmap at http://www.samba.org/samba/development.html (choose your local morror site please) and the Samba TNG pages at http://www.samba-tng.org/
Cheers, jerry
SAMBA Team
Luke leighton is a very good friend of mine. He was the Samba team member who helped get me involved with Samba. He still is a very good friend of course.
I have talked about this with Sander Striker and some of the others as well. It is important that the goal of the Samba TNG (as stated in the source code fork announcement) is to use the existing TNG code base for a portable dce/rpc library as well as other RPC implementations / research.
So this begs the question, what will happen now?
We all hope to be able to learn from and share ideas/code/jokes with each other. Hopes are that this will free up Luke and others to focus solely of the MS RPC implementation in Windows NT/2000. Samba itself will greatly benefit by being able to take advantage of the effort exerted by the TNG developers. In return, the TNG project will hopefully benefit just as much from the code review process of implementing these same RPCs in Samba. (developers often say it takes 3 - 4 four implementations to get something right
IMO (although I hate code forks as much as anyone), this was a good move for both Samba and the TNG project. I will not be surprised to development of both projects accelerate. Of course, this is only speculation, but I base it on the fact that we all can pursue each projects goals without being held back by trying to be portable to both code trees. This became alomost impossible even before TNG became a separate GPL'd project.
If you are interested in finding out more, I encourage you to view Samba's development roadmap at http://www.samba.org/samba/development.html (choose your local morror site please) and the Samba TNG pages at http://www.samba-tng.org/
Cheers, jerry
SAMBA Team
