Hello,
So it is lurker-time! Well let me chime in.
Sumbry, Simon, I have to disagree with both of you.
In one line: Release early, release often.
Especially something like table_prefixes (At least dbmail_*). In a
day and age where everyone is moving everything into the database,
not prefixing the tables would instantly put dbmail at a huge
disadvantage
This whole discussion about prefixes seems awfully trivial to me.
This is just a matter of personal preference. I personally rely on
schemas for separating namespaces (i.e. dbmail.* (Postgres supports this
now)). Introducing prefixes would break my installation. But I would
not complain, if they would be introduced in 2.0, and I would not
complain if they would be introduced in 2.1. This is simply a thing,
which you can't get right for everyone.
This has to be decided somehow. But imho, it should not be a showstopper
for a release, simply because we don't want to come to a decision.
I've been a longtime lurker as well, and am running 1.2.6 in
production awaiting a stable 2.0 release. I would far prefer to see
all the invasive changes introduced with the 2.0 release rather than
having to migrate again to 2.1 or 3.0.
Is this only about prefixes? I don't see any other thing, which would
destabilize the 2.x branch. I believe that we can find a solution for
this prefix-issue now. Maybe not a solution, which is optimal for all
cases, but a solution, everyone can live with.
Point releases are maintennance releases. People will expect
regular maintennance releases, however the initial release of a new
version should contain most of the drastic changes that have been
discussed on this list for the past couple of months.
Again, this is just a matter of preference.
Would you call the release of Linux kernel 2.6 a maintenance release?
The developers are putting hard work into dbmail 2 for almost a year
now. I think the community of dbmail users eagerly awaits a 2.0 release
with all these improvements. I personally do not want to wait for a
bunch of *new* features to be implemented. I fear that dbmail has
already lost users in all these months, because it could not provide a
new "feature release". It is a short-lived business.
Best regards,
Michael
