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

2020-01-25 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 06:48, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Why was this particular approach chosen? As opposed to, for example, > doing feature releases more often (e.g. 2.6 as soon as a few months > after 2.5), or adding a fourth version component (2.5.y.z) for strictly > bugfix-only patch releases? Not tr

Re: 2.4 commit review

2019-11-24 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 10:37 pm, Howard Chu wrote: > We have a project policy of not including content we can't support. And as > a general > circumstance, if we don't use something ourselves, then we aren't in a > position to support it. > Are you going to be here for the next 20+ years to suppor

Re: 2.4 commit review

2019-11-24 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Howard, On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 01:59, Howard Chu wrote: > AFAICS it is just another moving part that breaks. It doesn't provide any > information. > To use it you have to know whether to look in the /usr configs or /usr/local > (or other places), pkg-config automatically knows where the head

Re: 2.4 commit review

2019-11-23 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 21:59, Howard Chu wrote: > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > Howard, what's your opinion/thought on adding this for master/RE25? Ryan > > tested it and it worked for him. > > My personal opinion is that pkg-config is garbage and in all my experience it > has > only ever preve

Re: 2.4 commit review

2019-11-21 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 11:02 pm, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Quanah, > > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 03:32, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > > > A few commits stacking up, so would like to review them for inclusion in > an > > eventual 2.4.49. > > Any chance that ITS#8

Re: 2.4 commit review

2019-11-02 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Quanah, On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 03:32, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > A few commits stacking up, so would like to review them for inclusion in an > eventual 2.4.49. Any chance that ITS#8996 could be included? Back in April, you said pkg-config support would need to wait for a 2.5 release [1], bu

Re: Please review 2.5 plan (non-development items)

2019-09-24 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Ondřej, On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 23:38, Ondřej Kuzník wrote: > > Hi, > I've prepared a plan what the project wants to achieve as part of the > 2.5 stream apart from core OpenLDAP development that I intend to send to > -technical for wider discussion and as a call for participation. Two months ha

Re: ITS 8996

2019-04-22 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Quanah, On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 8:26 am, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > As it is a feature request and not a bug fix, it may be a while as we're > currently working on getting the OpenLDAP 2.4 series (feature frozen) > wrapped up. At that point we can spend a bit more time on planning what > ope

ITS 8996

2019-04-20 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi, I submitted #8996 [1] a month ago. I'm just wondering how long it will stay in Incoming before being reviewed and/or processed. Thank you, Hugh [1] http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=8996;page=29