[Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

[Peter Hessler]

On 2007 Mar 30 (Fri) at 17:04:58 -0700 (-0700), Kenneth Porter wrote:
:That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win 
:any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get 
:proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a version number 
:that gives business people the confidence to install it. 

When did the boardroom understand mail servers?  I must have missed 
that memo.  I tell them it is a fully functional, sturdy, reliable and 
fast email server infrastructure that they don't have to worry about.  
And since thats true, they don't have to worry about it.

This sort of decision is exactly why I'm the mail admin and they are 
not.  They know things at the boardroom level, and they are 
(presumably) good at it.  I don't look at things from the boardroom 
level.  However, I understand the MTA-related arena better than they do. 
If they understood the details, why would they spend the money on my 
salary.

Would it make you feel better if Timo decided that the next rc level 
was to be renamed 5.4?  How about Enterprise Edition?  The version number 
means nothing.


:Otherwise you'll be limited to avant garde hobbyists who have nothing to 
:risk.

And I resent the implication that I have nothing to risk.  I take deep 
pride in the fact that I treat my home systems exactly the same as I 
would a professional mail server contract.  Stability, reliability and 
reachability are crucial.  Being a hobbyist does not mean I do not care 
about the quality of my gear, just that I spend my own money on it.  I 
frequently just want it to Just Work, and it does.  When I feel like 
fiddling, I make copies of the appropriate binaries/configs and if I do 
not get things back in their proper form then the working copies are 
restored.



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