I, for one, is looking forward to a new release. Not that I'm not happy with the current release. I really enjoy the challenge, building a slackware compatible install package. Gives me a chance to do some scripting, on the fly compiling and checking if it actually did what I intended. I'm gonna have some fun. Also, I really need to migrate to more up to date kernels ;P On Wed, September 17, 2014 00:18, Bron Gondwana wrote: > I've been very idle on Cyrus for a while, I'm sorry. There's always heaps > going on at FastMail, and we have been focussing quite a lot on our own > branch's calendar support recently. > > As always, you can see the code we are using, and grab whatever you want - > it's all under the same licence as upstream Cyrus - right here: > > https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail > > But that's not the same as a real release! > > In October 2010, I visited Ken and Dave in Buffalo on my way through to > somewhere else - and we released 2.4.0. > > In October 2014, I'm going to be in the area again. It seems fitting to > do the same with 2.5.0 (though we might go to Pittsburgh for Dave this > time. Guys, that means 2.6.0 will be in Melbourne in 2018, just so you > can get planning). > > Release date is October 24th if all goes well. > > This gives us a little over month to get things ship-shape. Tidy up the > loose ends. Make sure we've tested the things that people need tested. > There's tons of stuff in bugzilla that needs to be sorted out, patches > applied, etc. We'll be working to the 'master' branch at cmu at first, > and then branching to cyrus-imapd-2.5 at some point. > > If you have a pet feature that MUST be in, or a pet bug that MUST be fixed > - let us know now. Bonus points if you've already got a patch for it, or > a test case :) > > We're setting a pretty aggressive timeline here, but that's good - because > important but non-urgent stuff just doesn't get done. And it's only 2.5, > not 3.0 - so we don't need to make ALL the giant changes that are in the > pipeline (or even all the ones in the fastmail branch). Most of all I'd > like to have everyone else using a supported, released version of some of > the great speedup and stability improvements we've had at FM for the past > few years already. > > Cheers, > > Bron. > > (not having to maintain my own 800+ patch series on top of master would be > a bonus too) > > -- > Bron Gondwana > brong@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Mogens Melander +66 8701 33224 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---- 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
