[Dovecot] Large LDAP changes - testing needed

[Gerard Seibert]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:20, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 10:07 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > I did quite large changes related to this and other auth_bind related
> > > things. All of it is untested unfortunately, because I haven't
> > > bothered to figure out why my OpenLDAP server installation is broken
> > > (and I really don't want to spend time figuring it out either).
> >
> > Surely the code-base should be pretty much frozen except for bug-fixes,
> > since we're already *way* into an extremely protracted RC series.
> >
> > I understand this change was to fix an existing bug, but it sounds like
> > the change was far more than a simple bug fix. Major code rewrites,
> > especially without any testing, don't seem right at this stage in the
> > game.
>
> In general I agree, but there wasn't any simple fix for this bug, except
> to just tell people that auth_bind sort of works but not really. And
> since so many people have wanted auth binds for a long time, I think
> it's better to fix it now than to hear complains about it for a long
> time.

I'll drink to that! Seriously though, if you know the problem exists, then 
there is really no good reason to procrastinate. Fix it and get it over 
with.

-- 
Gerard

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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