branch 2.4 on prod

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012, at 01:42 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 23:05 +0200, Bron Gondwana wrote: 
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Deniss Gaplevsky wrote:
> > > hello,
> > > i have a question to Brong as main powering force of cyrus development.
> > > I know cyrus is used at fastmail/opera for serving a lot of users.
> > > But stable branch 2.4 has a lot of performance related issues - like
> > > statuscache usage, grisly index lookups, etc - fixed in 2.5 which is not
> > > stable and not available as tarballs so far.
> > > Im curious what is the cyrus branch/version in use at Fastmail/Opera
> > > currently ? How well it is compatible to cyrus 2.4 branch ?
> > We're running master + our local patches in production at FastMail.
> > You may have noticed a bunch of work last week on master - I'm pushing
> > as much time as I can into preparing for a real 2.5 release.  Even if
> > it doesn't include everything we want, we can do a 2.6 more quickly next
> > time.  
> 
> And more frequent, but less monumental, 'major' version jumps is nice,
> BTW.  2.3.x --> 2.4.x was a huge [and a bit scary] jump.   Slowly
> letting the awesome soak in is preferred.

:)  Definitely.

> BTW, 2.4.x may have some warts, but performance is still much improved
> over 2.3.x; at least in my experience.

I hope so.  I spent a year or so working on it.  The downside with 2.4 was
that I didn't really understand the use-cases that I wasn't using so well.
I have a better handle on them now, and with Greg's awesome Cassandane work,
we'll have better testing for stuff that not everybody uses as well.

Bron.
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  Bron Gondwana
  brong at fastmail.fm