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.
http://www.openldap.org/software/
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
It's up to users to pay attention to the features they use and the problems
they encounter, all of the information has already been provided. Aside from
ITSs marked "crash" it's not possible for us to judge what's a "bad
problem"
since each users' environment differs so widely.
-William
On 11/09/2011 11:19 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:27 PM +0100 Michael Ströder
> <michael(a)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
>
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