<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, at 00:20, Samir Aguiar wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="fastmail-quoted"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi Bron,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On 09/12/2018 03:49 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Samir: what's your plan for moving those users to something which<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> supports standard METADATA?  Because the downside of keeping on<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> supporting a legacy ANNOTATEMORE in Cyrus is that somebody has to<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> maintain that forever if you're never planning to get off it, either you<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> or everyone else touching that code!<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Yes, that's a fair point.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">The plan is to update our client to use METADATA instead of<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">ANNOTATEMORE, while keeping support for both in the server. After this<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">we deprecate ANNOTATEMORE to signal customers that they should upgrade<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">their clients. This deprecation should happen mostly likely within two<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">years, and in the next years we will be removing it completely from the<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">server.<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Right!  OK, we'll add it back in 3.0 and 3.2 then (with a config option to turn it on), and deprecate it after that :)<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I have CC'd ellie who is making the releases and created <a href="https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2525">https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2525</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Cheers,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Bron.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div id="sig567075"><div class="signature">-- <br></div><div class="signature">  Bron Gondwana<br></div><div class="signature">  brong@fastmail.fm<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>