2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Brandon Hume
I don't know whether 2.3.43 is new enough to NOT be told to go to hell, but it's the latest of the 2.3.x series and I can't get migrated to 2.4 until I get slurpd gone... and oddly enough, I think turning off slurpd caused some of my problems. This morning our two slaves and master server began

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Francis Swasey
On 9/18/09 3:47 AM, Howard Chu wrote: Brandon Hume wrote: I don't know whether 2.3.43 is new enough to NOT be told to go to hell, Nobody would ever tell you that. But 2.3.43 is over a year old and 2.4 has been the stable release for quite a long time. Insisting on using it is the same as

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Brandon Hume
Howard Chu wrote: Nobody would ever tell you that. But 2.3.43 is over a year old and 2.4 has been the stable release for quite a long time. Insisting on using it is the same as you telling us to go to hell with our bug fixes. Moving to 2.4 is very, very much a priority for me. But I was under

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:33 -0400, Francis Swasey wrote: This is getting ridiculous from my perspective. We've had a rash of people reporting problems against older releases and being effectively told to go to hell (which is what we hear when the development team or some proxy for them

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Friday, September 18, 2009 7:33 AM -0400 Francis Swasey frank.swa...@uvm.edu wrote: On 9/18/09 3:47 AM, Howard Chu wrote: Brandon Hume wrote: I don't know whether 2.3.43 is new enough to NOT be told to go to hell, Nobody would ever tell you that. But 2.3.43 is over a year old and 2.4

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Aaron Richton
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Francis Swasey wrote: 2.4 is not stable by any definition other than the OpenLDAP project has designated it so. I would disagree with this. I'm not at all involved in the official project designations, and I can say that I gave a talk at Rutgers in March 2009 (2.4.15 at

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Ryan Steele
Brandon Hume wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:33 -0400, Francis Swasey wrote: This is getting ridiculous from my perspective. We've had a rash of people reporting problems against older releases and being effectively told to go to hell (which is what we hear when the development team or

Re: 2.3.43, and a variety of problems.

2009-09-18 Thread Howard Chu
Ryan Steele wrote: Brandon Hume wrote: I realize that users ask stupid questions and run ancient versions, but I also realize that sometimes those users are experiencing a catastrophe and have eighty thousand users banging on the door demanding explanation (ie: me). In that kind of situation