ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464

[Ken Murchison]

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:17:51PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
>> Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:03:11AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>> What is your new format proposal?
>>> I'll see :)  Not sure yet - but mainly not sizeof(unsigned long)!
>> If we make a wholesale change to the database, perhaps this might be
>> something we put in the 2.4 branch.  It already has some
>> partial/complete extensions like QRESYNC, LIST-EXTENDED,
>> URLAUTH=BINARY and COMPRESS (which I backported to 2.3).
>>
>> I was also thinking that although the charset changes have been
>> fully tested at Fastmail that it too might be a candidate for 2.4.
> 
> Yeah, fair enough!  I did commit them to CVS, but it's easy enough to
> back them out and commit to a branch instead.
> 
> Do we have a roadmap for what else people want on the 2.4 branch?
> I'd be happy to put a bit more effort into polishing up those features
> that are there so we can ship a 2.4 soonish.  Say by April next year,
> which gives us 6 months to prepare.

My original vision for 2.4 was to be compliant with the LEMONADE v2 profile.

At this point is can morph into anything we want.  Some of the 2.4 
features required changes that I felt were too in depth to put into a 
relatively stable 2.3.

I'm pretty close to having the time to dive back into the 2.4 code.  The 
first thing that needs to be done is to merge all of the new 2.3 stuff 
into 2.4.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University