Release once per month whether we need to or not

[Jan Parcel]

On 04/08/2016 05:15 PM, Bron Gondwana via Cyrus-devel wrote:
> So we have a problem.  Our releases are rare, massive (and hence major changes!) and nobody knows how to do them reliably because it's been too long.
>
> We're planning to release the next 3.0 beta and the next 2.5 stable on Monday.  After that I want us to commit to the following:
>
> * release a beta at least once per month
> * release a stable at least once every 3 months
>
> If we've got no changes, well - it's just a new release number with no changes - should be simple to cut!  Or we could go pick a small bug from bugzilla/phabricator, write a test, ship it.
>
> This will give us an easier job of actually releasing.  After all, practice makes perfect, and we're far from perfect at releasing right now!
>
> Bron.
>
I don't know what effect this would have on imap, but I know that for 
libsasl2, it would not be good to change the
release number for no reason.  There are client applications out there 
(openldap is the one I found)  that check the
full release number and refuse to run if it is not identical to what it 
was compiled with, and so changing a release number for no reason would 
be very burdensome downstream.

Since I assume you're talking about imap, maybe it would not affect 
anybody?