[Dovecot] 2.2.9

[Nick Edwards]

On 11/24/13, Andreas Kasenides <andreas at cymail.eu> wrote:
> On 23-11-2013 3:47, Noel Butler wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 10:14 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>>
>>> * Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net>:
>>> > * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de> 2013.11.22 09:44:
>>> >
>>> > > Which patch?
>>> >
>>> > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-November/093654.html
>>> >
>>> > Pigeonhole related patches.
>>>
>>> Damn. Those are biting me as well :/
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> software does, or gets his devs and a community of official testers
>> each
>> with wildly different configurations and set ups, ASF have an excellent
>> model that could be followed, bunch of devs and testers who each report
>> on different distros and configs, why? because no single dev can
>> imagine
>> and test every  possible configuration. it might just save dovecot's
>> good name, I recall a lot of damage was done to that in the circles I'm
>> in when 2.0 was released with patches nearly every few days and weeks,
>> I
>> know a few ISP's and businesses that went back to courier or  Wu's
>> because major bugs were getting in often, though it has been a lot
>> better since 2.1 series, until this release that is :)
>
> I second this and offer my services for two, three different system
> configs from  Dovecot's plain old simple config with MAILDIR to slightly
> more complicated
> configurations with proxying/LDAP/dsync/mySQL etc based on
> virtualization with KVM.
>
> I also propose that upon employing above strategy that Timo should come
> up with a
> release cycles (long term, short term) with announced targets. Patches
> should be released as patches strictly as needed, not releases, and
> should be announced on a low traffic list like he is already doing with
> releases. OR something along these lines.
>

careful, or the suckups will go you next :)


> I know these are growing pains but essential. Email systems are CRITICAL
> for most of us.
>

dovecot is over 10 years, most softwares overcome these in the first
couple of years

> Andreas
>