Cyrus-sasl official releases?

[Ken Murchison]

I'd like to get a new release out the door by the end of October.


On 09/23/2016 04:50 AM, Jakub Jelen via Cyrus-sasl wrote:
> Thank you for clarification. Clearly, I can do a snapshot from a git, 
> but it was something I wanted to avoid in an official distribution.
>
> Do you or someone else from the maintainers plan to do the official 
> release in close future? Is there some blocker? I can certainly test 
> the release/pre-release to make sure it does what it is supposed to do.
>
> Jakub
>
>
> On 09/23/2016 09:20 AM, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote:
>> Hey Jakub,
>>
>> my release contains patches that are not yet upstream, also it is not 
>> an official release but I use it for my own projects, see gtk-win32.
>> That said, we really need a new release of cyrus-sasl, and we 
>> probably would be better suited with my release or using a snapshot out
>> of git.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Jakub Jelen <jjelen at redhat.com 
>> <mailto:jjelen at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello there,
>>
>>     some time ago, I contributed several patches from Fedora that we
>>     were using into the cyrus-sasl fork on github [1] and if I see
>>     right, they made it back to the official git repository. Since
>>     that time, there were two releases on github, but none of them is
>>     mentioned in the official cyrus-sasl website nor available on the
>>     official FTP [2] (still linked from the fork readme).
>>
>>     Can we consider this as an official release? Is it planned to be
>>     available in the official FTP? Or is the upstream abandoned and
>>     the future work will be done on github? Adding Nacho to CC, who is
>>     doing these releases and should be able to bring some light into 
>> that.
>>
>>     Why do I ask? I would like to update the Fedora package and get
>>     rid of the bunch of patches we carry around for years (since they
>>     are upstream), but I would not like to pick up some "random fork"
>>     (with no offense -- I really appreciate the work Ignacio Casal
>>     Quinteiro and Ken Murchison did so far).
>>
>>     [1] https://github.com/wingtk/cyrus-sasl
>>     <https://github.com/wingtk/cyrus-sasl>
>>     [2] ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail
>>     <ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail>
>>
>>
>>     Kind regards,
>>
>>     --     Jakub Jelen
>>     Associate Software Engineer
>>     Security Technologies
>>     Red Hat
>>
>>
>

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Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University