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Re: error while adding entry using ldap.jar JAVA API
Brandon McCombs wrote:
Brandon's question is completely off base. The Project has been
actively supporting the 2.3 release for almost 3 years now. For a
volunteer effort that's pretty damn good.
With that last statement it sounds like you think I'm suggesting you
guys don't work hard to fix bugs in old releases which isn't what I
originally stated. I meant that it seemed to me like supporting older
releases from a *troubleshooting* perspective didn't seem to happen much
on this list. Support by backporting patches to old releases and support
by troubleshooting old releases without requiring an upgrade prior to
troubleshooting are 2 different things. It's akin to companies requiring
a supported configuration prior to troubleshooting a problem, even if
the supported configuration is technically and seemingly unrelated to
the problem. Nothing happens until the supported configuration exists on
the customer side. Sometimes it looks like that happens here. Obviously
others disagree. Oh well, just my opinion.
Since troubleshooting is done on a voluntary basis, we do not provide
any support for old releases. stop. We provide support for the latest
release. stop. So upgrading to the latest is a prerequisite to get
(yet voluntary, free and unpaid) support.
Anyone then is free to help others troubleshooting without prior
upgrading, but that's another point. In any case, if the
troubleshooting without upgrading ends up in discovering and fixing a
new bug, the fix will only be released as a patch to the laters release,
so an upgrade will be required anyway, unless one is fine with manually
patching the old release's source code.
p.
Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team
SysNet s.r.l.
via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA
http://www.sys-net.it
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