Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 05:46, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > But my point was, I think it’s a fallacy to tie software quality and > frequency of releases. I encounter way too much software today that > releases frequently, but what it releases is poorly (or not at all) QA'd, > etc. And it's a nigh

Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:01 PM +0100 Michael Ströder wrote: Today releasing is already way too slow. And I'm concerned that a release policy with additional constraints, as suggested with odd-/even-numbered releases, will make it even harder to get important fixes out of the door.

Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Michael Ströder
On 1/28/20 6:30 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:08 AM +0100 Michael Ströder > wrote: > >> On 1/27/20 11:17 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >>> --On Monday, January 27, 2020 10:45 PM +0100 Michael Ströder >>> wrote: >>> On 1/27/20 10:19 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mou

Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Ondřej Kuzník
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 02:17:13PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > No, not at all. I would say OpenLDAP has too few releases in a year (only > 1-2 currently for most years, unfortunately), so having more frequent > releases for it is probably a good thing. But a piece of software in > general

Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:08 AM +0100 Michael Ströder wrote: On 1/27/20 11:17 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Monday, January 27, 2020 10:45 PM +0100 Michael Ströder wrote: On 1/27/20 10:19 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: To me, frequent releases generally indicate an immat

Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

2020-01-28 Thread Michael Ströder
On 1/27/20 11:17 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Monday, January 27, 2020 10:45 PM +0100 Michael Ströder > wrote: > >> On 1/27/20 10:19 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >>> To me, frequent releases >>> generally indicate an immature, unstable, and buggy product. ;) >> >> Are you sarcastic her