On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:30:50 -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> I know I've said this in the past, but nothing has happened, so just
> another gentle nudge....
I'm glad you brought it up. :-) Brendan once started a thread on Thu,
22 Feb 2007 - and it certainly wasn't the first discussion around this.
> Obviously pretty much anyone who uses mutt these days uses 1.5.x, and
> most software vendors ship 1.5.x vs 1.4.x in newer releases, but isn't
> it about time that "we"* do some kind of feature freeze, fix any major
> outstanding bugs and decide that something is good enough for a 1.6
> release?
We might as well consider it a 1.5 maintenance mode, like Linux kernel
3.x. Even if 1.6 ever gets released, I personally doubt the developers
will go to the trouble of maintaining a stable and a development
branch again. Just my €0.02.
Actually, in the bug tracking system (or on the list), I think there are
some bugs which were definitely marked for fixing before 1.6, and a lot
of stuff which should or could go in. I don't know the current state of
thoser though.
Good things just last! ("Provisorien halten am Längsten.")
Cheers,
Moritz
