Am Sonntag, den 30.04.2006, 09:00 -0400 schrieb Noel J. Bergman: > Stefano Bagnara wrote: > > > I don't agree: imho we already have a stable release out: 2.2.0. > > Yes, but consider the many enhancements, changes and bugfixes since that > release that are based upon "feedback and contributions [of] features people > need." If we continue to delay releasing those, might not "people [switch] > to different mail servers", too? > Maybe your right. We should but out a 2.3 release and focus a 2.4 release to add this changes.
> > I would prefer to have a few more alpha cycle and possibly introduce new > > features before 2.3.0 but I'll not be -1 on putting out a release on the > > current feature-set. > > Right, that's what I'm saying. Let's focus on getting a solid release out, > and then continue with feature changes. > > > If we want to feature freeze here for 2.3.0 then I think we should > > create a branch so that we can also keep going on with new code. > > We can do that, and it is a good practice, but as you note, "no one here > work on James as a full time "priority" job", so I am a bit concerned that > efforts will continue to focus on adding features to another branch rather > than on putting out a release. I'm asking that we as a community make > getting a solid release out a priority. > > And, as Serge notes, by incrementally adding features to a solid release, > more people will be willing to test it, which helps development. What does > it say that neither Serge nor I are running the current code in production? > I normally ran trunk in production, but there were so many key changes on > top of one another that I was no longer comfortable putting trunk into > production. If we can get into a more frequent release cycle, where we are > not changing too many things at once, I believe that we'll have better > pickup. There are more features which are really intressting we should add in future. 1. Maildir support 2. SPF Support ( after Stefano and I are finish with JSpf 3. SMTPHandler chain refactor 4. IMAP ( I think this is the feature which most users really miss now.. Me too) bye Norman
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