Working to a 4.70 release

[Nigel Metheringham]

I've gone through all the non-wishlist bugs that are currently active.

Some require significant work - which I am not in a position to  
perform, so I have
left those.  However I have hit all the low hanging fruit.

Things that could now be done:-
   - add changebars into the documentation - which is pretty much
     a case of looking at a diff of the spec file from just after
     4.69 to now.
   - test suite.  I've never got it work work right on my systems
     so am not chasing it myself.
   - There are a few bugs I have commented up - if someone wishes
     to make a definite decision on them.

Other than that I think the VCS version should be close to releasable,
so testing on this would be good.  Then going to a release...

     Nigel.

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On 2009-10-26 Nigel Metheringham <nigel.metheringham@...> wrote:
> I've gone through all the non-wishlist bugs that are currently active.

> Some require significant work - which I am not in a position to  
> perform, so I have
> left those.  However I have hit all the low hanging fruit.

Thank you.

> Things that could now be done:-
[...]
> Other than that I think the VCS version should be close to releasable,
> so testing on this would be good.  Then going to a release...

I would really like to see http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896
fixed in the release.

cu andreas

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[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:41 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> I would really like to see http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896
> fixed in the release.

I think Nigel just fixed it but closed the wrong bug (again)?

johannes


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On 2009-10-26 Johannes Berg <johannes@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:41 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> > I would really like to see http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896
> > fixed in the release.

> I think Nigel just fixed it but closed the wrong bug (again)?

http://git.infradead.org/exim-src.git/history/a60eeb5b0822109b3ff08fab528d2712ba9095e1:/src/auths/dovecot.c
does not show any recent commit.

cu andreas

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On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:08 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> http://git.infradead.org/exim-src.git/history/a60eeb5b0822109b3ff08fab528d2712ba9095e1:/src/auths/dovecot.c
> does not show any recent commit.

For the avoidance of doubt, the dwmw2's git repository is not a
real-time reflection of the primary CVS repo. I'm unsure how frequently
it syncs.

Graeme


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On 2009-10-26 Graeme Fowler <graeme@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:08 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > http://git.infradead.org/exim-src.git/history/a60eeb5b0822109b3ff08fab528d2712ba9095e1:/src/auths/dovecot.c
> > does not show any recent commit.

> For the avoidance of doubt, the dwmw2's git repository is not a
> real-time reflection of the primary CVS repo. I'm unsure how frequently
> it syncs.


The patch is there now.
cu andreas

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[Nigel Metheringham]

On 26 Oct 2009, at 13:58, Johannes Berg wrote:

> I think Nigel just fixed it but closed the wrong bug (again)?

Sorry - this is a nasty side effect of how Bugzilla displays stuff - if
you are working through a list it often has a bug number at the top,
and then a "next bug is ..." section, and I pick the wrong one up....

        Nigel.
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[Nigel Metheringham]

On 26 Oct 2009, at 13:34, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

>   - add changebars into the documentation - which is pretty much
>     a case of looking at a diff of the spec file from just after
>     4.69 to now.

I've added changebars to the docs - in a slightly rough and ready way,
and updated the dates on them.

The primary author is still Philip - and he did write 95% or more of
it.  However he is not now the primary person responsible for
maintenance.  I'm inclined to leave Philip's name as primary author
unless someone has a good alternative suggestion...

        Nigel.

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On 2009-10-27 at 14:50 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

>
> On 26 Oct 2009, at 13:34, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> >   - add changebars into the documentation - which is pretty much
> >     a case of looking at a diff of the spec file from just after
> >     4.69 to now.
>
> I've added changebars to the docs - in a slightly rough and ready way,
> and updated the dates on them.
>
> The primary author is still Philip - and he did write 95% or more of
> it.  However he is not now the primary person responsible for
> maintenance.  I'm inclined to leave Philip's name as primary author
> unless someone has a good alternative suggestion...

Author: Philip Hazel
Maintained By: The Exim Developers <exim-dev@...>

"Maintenance By:", "Current Maintainers:" whatever.  It's easy enough to
take the flak without taking the credit.  :)

Even:
  Author: Philip Hazel (retired)
  Current Maintainers: The Exim Developers <exim-dev@...>

2¢
-Phil

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