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Re: drop "stable"

To: William King <quentusrex@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: drop "stable"
From: Michael StrÃder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:57:14 +0100
Cc: openldap-devel@openldap.org
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William King wrote:
> If stable is not dropped, at least have a page for known 'bad problems' for
> the releases. This would help to inform users why they would or would not want
> a particular release.

That's an even more blurry approach than the existing "stable" tag.

My rule is: It's better to have no information than
incomplete/outdated/errornous information.

Ciao, Michael.

> On 11/09/2011 11:19 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:27 PM +0100 Michael StrÃder
>> <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
>>
>>> => My suggestion: Simply drop "stable" completely and list only the
>>> releases with version number without further qualification. Today most
>>> people can deal with version numbers quite well.
>>
>> I fairly well agree.  OpenLDAP 2.4.23 has a number of serious problems.
>> OpenLDAP 2.4.26 is much more "stable".  I think it is unfortunate that
>> 2.4.23 is still listed as the "stable" release on the downloads page. There
>> may still yet be bugs in 2.4.26, but it is a vast improvement over 2.4.23,
>> 2.4.24, or 2.4.25.
>>
>> --Quanah

References:
- drop "stable"
  - From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
- Re: drop "stable"
  - From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>
- Re: drop "stable"
  - From: William King <quentusrex@gmail.com>

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