Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote: DG> What help would the Debian Cyrus Team most appreciate?
[I deliberately didn't copy my original message to the bug address, since it was a rather general discussion. But others have, so browsers of the bugs database may wish to read http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel/2008-December/002585.html for context.] OS> I see no sense to package cyrus-imapd 2.3 right now, it will OS> not get into next stable, so sensible approach is to wait for OS> lenny to release and after that move cyrus-imapd-2.3 to OS> unstable CCT> I disagree. It should get into experimental ASAP and start CCT> getting some work done so that by the time lenny releases, CCT> we have it ready to move into unstable I think both points of view can be accommodated. We're already producing, and will continue to maintain, unofficial 2.3 packages for Etch and for Lenny, but it's unlikely we'll need binaries beyond amd64 and i386. Of course it's too late even to think about official Lenny, but maybe backports would carry 2.3 once it's in Sid... 2.3.8 is already in experimental, but incase's cyrus23 SVN branch hasn't been touched for a year. I'm guessing from the tiny volume of traffic on the coordination list, and the quietness of the SVN repo that the team don't have time to update to 2.3.13. We've already done that, and added a bunch of tweaks and new patches that suit _our_ needs. We'd love to see a 2.3 package set in official Debian that meets _everyone's_ needs. We're willing to contribute existing code, people's time, SVN servers, build hosts, etc, to help that happen. How can we best do this? Who else is doing the same things? CCT> We are talking about a relatively well tested and stable CCT> upstream source My personal perception is that the upstream developers are mostly dealing with large but fairly static installations (in universities), so while they do care deeply about scalability and do drive some new features, they don't hit as many corner cases or experience as much demand for cool new shiny stuff as we do deploying mainly in the SME and local government space. But that's just my excuse for all the patches we put in ;-) "Stable" in this context can mean "slow-moving"... Cheers Duncan -- Duncan Gibb, Technical Director Sirius Corporation plc - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk/ Tel: +44 870 608 0063 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
