On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, at 00:20, Samir Aguiar wrote:
> Hi Bron,
>
> On 09/12/2018 03:49 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > Samir: what's your plan for moving those users to something which
> > supports standard METADATA? Because the downside of keeping on
> > supporting a legacy ANNOTATEMORE in Cyrus is that somebody has to
> > maintain that forever if you're never planning to get off it, either you
> > or everyone else touching that code!
>
> Yes, that's a fair point.
>
> The plan is to update our client to use METADATA instead of
> ANNOTATEMORE, while keeping support for both in the server. After this
> we deprecate ANNOTATEMORE to signal customers that they should upgrade
> their clients. This deprecation should happen mostly likely within two
> years, and in the next years we will be removing it completely from the
> server.
Right! OK, we'll add it back in 3.0 and 3.2 then (with a config option to turn
it on), and deprecate it after that :)
I have CC'd ellie who is making the releases and created
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2525
Cheers,
Bron.
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