Re: New release policy for OpenLDAP

--On Monday, January 27, 2020 10:45 PM +0100 Michael Ströder 
<[email protected]> 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 here?

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 that is releasing constantly?  Not a fan of it at all, and haven't 
seen it as a good thing as far as softare quality is concerned.  There's 
plenty of software that releases much less frequently than OpenLDAP as 
well, because there isn't a driving need for it to have a new release.

And as Howard noted, there's a balance to strike between stability and 
feature development.  If we release every 2 weeks, but slapd core dumps 90% 
of the time, is that really better?  Sure, the project looks more "active", 
but I wouldn't see that as a benefit/gain.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
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