My experience is that the daemon performs much better than "alpha"
would ordinarily indicate.
I very nearly implemented 0.9x, which would have, in retrospect, been
unfortunate. The only reasons I implemented dovecot at all initially
(what with the Alpha label and all) are twofold:
- I was ******very****** desperate for a imap server with indexing
- Redhat packaged it in RHEL
All the same, it's not quite done yet, and if those issues may
require an incompatible redesign of some section of the daemon, then
Alpha should remain, IMHO.
If the likelyhood of an incompatible rework is nil, then I vote to
move it on up to Beta. When the release time comes, we could have
some "Release Canidate" versions, and it would all be politically
easier to sell, and get new users on board. It would really, really
suck to be in position (like I am) where *I need this daemon*, but
had to weather major static over a label issue.
Anyway, that's my .02 for Timo and crew to duly consider :)
Also, my mail server & clients & I say 1024**4 thanks for the great
work!!
-CedricOn 16-Dec-05, at 10:12 AM, 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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