[Dovecot] 2.2.9

[Eugene]

Hi all,

In recent years I use dovecot installed from FreeBSD ports. Interestingly, I 
feel that they follow the dovecot releases rather well but with some lag, 
e.g. currently it is at 2.2.6. I don't know if that is 'by design' or caused 
by lack of manpower, but it works pretty well in that problems usually get 
fixed before the update =)
(And then again, nobody says you should install a new version on the release 
day).

Also, I am not sure RCs as such would do much good, since most of the test 
systems are not likely to reproduce the volume and diversity of production 
workloads.

Best wishes
Eugene



-----Original Message----- 
From: Andreas Kasenides
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:24 PM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 2.2.9

On 23-11-2013 19:56, Luuk wrote:
> On 23-11-2013 18:44, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
>> On 23-11-2013 3:47, Noel Butler wrote:
>>> These would be found if Timo reverted back to issuing RC's before any
>>> official release, to iron out the niggly off-putting bugs, like most
> ....
>
>> I second this and offer my services for two, three different system
>
> What is the difference between a 'RC' and a new version?
>
> One should TEST this new version ALWAYS before using it in production
> (it does not matter if there was a 'RC' before it...)
>
> 2 cents....
>
> ;)

RC means exactly what is says Release Client :) NOT a release.
So if you get bitten by it then do not come here complaining.
Most software go through several RCs before issuing a normal release.
Most administrators have test systems that can test RCs for basic
functionality and report here of any problems to be fixed.
Some though jump into a new release when one is available.
An RC should at least show the red flag raised.

Andreas