Cyrus IMAPD 2.4

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Fri Nov 19 01:20:06 UTC 2010


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> > upstream has not settled down on a workflow that allows for easy bug
> > fixing patch flux that can be released with little notice when a
> > very nasty bug gets fixed yet, so we might have to use a LOT of
> > discretion before releasing a new upstream.
> > 
> > But it looks like they have felt the need for that kind of workflow
> > now, due to some nasty crap in 2.4.2/2.4.3 that wanted a quick
> > fix+release, but there was unfinished work in the tree getting in
> > the way.
> 
> Since I am the release engineer for upstream Cyrus now, I can make
> sure timely releases are being done (like, *actually done*), have
> patches be accepted (like, *actually committed* to at least master),
> be backported, and recommend releases be issued.

Hmm, looks like we will have premium first class Cyrus support in
Debian now :-)

My suggestion is that you guys should make heavy use of topic branches,
so that only stabilized work goes into the next-release branches.  That
should make it trivial to release fast when required, without hindering
development.

> to this release. That said, I am strongly in favor of a weekly 2 bug-fix 
> release over a month postponing 15 low hanging fruit bugs going in -I hope 
> that makes sense ;-)

It does.

> On an additional, more personal note, I have to admit I'm not all that
> great a coder; I'm more the kind of release engineer that trusts the
> people actually doing the coding and merely organizes the process
> around releasing / issue tracking / back-porting, etc.

Which is an important job.  The coders get distracted, well, coding :)
A release manager is always a damn great help.  We should know, being
a distro...

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  Henrique Holschuh



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