Just 30 minutes ago I converted my boss from our old UW IMAP server to alpha 5 running on a new Sun box. I'm not going to tell him we're running on alpha code because he'd have a whole herd of cows. I sure hope I don't regret this.
Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm sure some of my customers would also freak if they knew I was using "Alpha" code. Besides, who expects a 1.0 version to be perfect?
Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
For political reasons, I would like to see alphaX promoted to "1.0". My boss had a cow the other day when I told her we are running alpha code in production. My defense was "you hadn't noticed because it works." Or at least call alpha6 something like "beta1" instead.
Jeff Earickson Colby College
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:09 -0800 From: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha?
I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with an official version 1.0.
Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0.
The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label.
Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in production.
Thoughts?
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