On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
A few new small features and lots of index/mbox fixes. I've been heavily stress testing this release, so I think it should be about perfect. :)
*Features*?! In an rc?! No wonder there's no convergence.
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So please, no more features in these rc's! Just lock it down and ship it and let people get some experience with it, so I'll know exactly what to expect when *I* install it.
I have to agree with you on this. I'm relatively new with Dovecot and have been evaluating it for deployment in a production environment. I must say that Dovecot has the most unusual development method of a large-scale project I've seen.
There have been so many show-stopping bugs in the past 10 releases that I wouldn't even consider this a candidate for a Beta release at this point, let alone a production release.
I'm very appreciative of all the hard-work the author(s) have put into this, but I think at some point they need to take a hard-look at the way they develop and release distributions. It seems extremely sloppy and I know it's confusing to others besides myself.
-- Dean Brooks dean@iglou.com