Re: [Exim] Exim 4.21 and human nature

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Autor: John W Baxter
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Assunto: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.21 and human nature
At 13:11 +0200 8/17/2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>On (2003/08/16 22:09), John W Baxter wrote:
>
>> I've learned to trust Philip's releases at a higher level of believe than
>> for releasing people generally.


Aargh: Note to self: belief and believe are different words.

>
>I haven't. :-)
>
>Philip has, himself, warned that he makes mistakes at release time, and
>that he doesn't get as much user testing of pre-releases as he'd like.
>
>I don't think this is false humility; that's the domain of the arrogant.
>I think it's honest, and a valuable warning.


I didn't say "install because it's there and came from Philip." ;-)

Watching this list for a while after a release comes out is quite
useful...although *some* problems don't affect us (eg, Sun-specific).

>
>I try to test Exim pre-releases, but only on systems that I'm not paid
>to keep bullet-proof.


Yes.
Lab machines are the first stop. But they only prove so much.

I'm going to have to jump into *some* 4.2.x soon, since I can't keep the
boss from running up2date.  The ability in recent kernels to do the moral
equivalent of
    echo 1 > /proc/dont_complain_about_waitpid
would stretch out the time I have.  [And I don't want to stop off at
4.1.4.]  Sigh.


--John

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John Baxter   jwblist@???      Port Ludlow, WA, USA