From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 21:24:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D0F1065679 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jktrigg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926468FC08 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb13 with SMTP id 13so68246wwb.31 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=07/ndDGlZshGfkycpuC/Z8bftFQh6cMLoOHI7e9ntCk=; b=Qt8/PJEfQYA0XB9wR/nXnkdS8wOhWUeLkjqhfRo6DIPYVlGhkzIeEll81qzXpXJoAX XogH4D6Ho2ASzZThVuizaO2UZu2fhEkjgjUttSs6/AeTC2/0daOOIRIQTaxjd0EeDGw/ H6ndb4DL9t1uG4mWiaDMDfGwOBtzAco/6plqo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=x7oqoc9RZgWcdorP2c1iwmf6Xhsbl4M4jnCCcOcTlJPuN8xHZTRDDdkbZZjdpl7yPj uI5f97KofcP3GXgjg3hCTgWDO9xkjK2ru0AVJXJ+Mw82ih8nB0gZfzQRTObgD94ww/Ho Eoq5bO9jS/YLYAWWL6OusqIL34PbJ11JZovps= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.1.6 with SMTP id 6mr6569549wec.24.1282685079402; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: jktrigg@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.53.137 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100824160448.2ee7515a@seibercom.net> References: <4C741399.1050105@interia.pl> <20100824160448.2ee7515a@seibercom.net> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:24:39 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FzGW76WXXODw0bfy0fDfXPGaMh8 Message-ID: From: Jim Trigg To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: ports - dovecot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:24:41 -0000 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:46:49 +0200 > DZIOBAK articulated: > >> Could you please tell me when can be released dovecot-1.2.14 and >> dovecot-2.0.1? The versions 1.2.13 and 2.0.0 are released for couple >> of weeks, but ports are not created. > > While releasing the former into the ports system is a worthwhile goal, > it would be a mistake IMHO to do the same for the latter. The software > author is releasing on what appears to be an almost hourly schedule, > patches to the base program. Until it stabilizes, I would not recommend > releasing it into the wild. If it has as many problems as it appears to > on the system it was written on, one can only imagine what sort of > problems await FreeBSD users. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to release it as dovecot-devel (which is currently DEPRECATED because it's lagging behind the main dovecot port). Jim