[Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

[Noel Butler]

On 19/03/2020 03:56, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ wrote:

> I fully agree with this:
> 
>> Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major 
>> release, 2.4.0 instead.  It makes sense to retain, in as much as is 
>> possible, feature backwards compatibility across a major release.

I'm astonished that features are being removed in a dot release as well,
no other major project does this, hell, most don't like adding new
features in dot releases let alone stripping them out. 

None of the listed changes affect me that I can see, but I've been
around a long time and I'm flabbergasted that someone actually approved
this on dot release. 

Now although there is no real need for them to further upgrade to ensure
business continuity, if a serious exploit is released in the wild they
highly likely will get bitten. Stripping everything else at once in a
new major is perfectly acceptable, and, is the norm. 

-- 
Kind Regards, 

Noel Butler 

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