On Tue, Sep 25, 2012, at 01:42 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 23:05 +0200, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Deniss Gaplevsky wrote: > > > hello, > > > i have a question to Brong as main powering force of cyrus development. > > > I know cyrus is used at fastmail/opera for serving a lot of users. > > > But stable branch 2.4 has a lot of performance related issues - like > > > statuscache usage, grisly index lookups, etc - fixed in 2.5 which is not > > > stable and not available as tarballs so far. > > > Im curious what is the cyrus branch/version in use at Fastmail/Opera > > > currently ? How well it is compatible to cyrus 2.4 branch ? > > We're running master + our local patches in production at FastMail. > > You may have noticed a bunch of work last week on master - I'm pushing > > as much time as I can into preparing for a real 2.5 release. Even if > > it doesn't include everything we want, we can do a 2.6 more quickly next > > time. > > And more frequent, but less monumental, 'major' version jumps is nice, > BTW. 2.3.x --> 2.4.x was a huge [and a bit scary] jump. Slowly > letting the awesome soak in is preferred. :) Definitely. > BTW, 2.4.x may have some warts, but performance is still much improved > over 2.3.x; at least in my experience. I hope so. I spent a year or so working on it. The downside with 2.4 was that I didn't really understand the use-cases that I wasn't using so well. I have a better handle on them now, and with Greg's awesome Cassandane work, we'll have better testing for stuff that not everybody uses as well. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
