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List:       poptop-server
Subject:    Re: [Poptop-server] Is 1.3.3 stable or development?
From:       "Michael St. Laurent" <mikes () hartwellcorp ! com>
Date:       2007-04-13 16:15:25
Message-ID: 3BF93070B3D1B047BA7ABF612958950D018FB8D2 () hcex ! hartwellcorp ! com
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Okay, thanks for the feedback James.  ;-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: poptop-server-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:poptop-server-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On 
> Behalf Of James Cameron
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: Poptop-server@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] Is 1.3.3 stable or development?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:01:18AM -0700, Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> > Is the 1.3.3 release considered stable or is it a 
> development release?
> 
> It is considered stable.  Stable means there are no plans to change it
> unless there are fixes to critical problems.  Feature 
> enhancements would
> form a 1.4.0 release.  These plans are subject to change.
> 
> > We're having throughput and connection dropping issues 
> which were not
> > present before upgrading to it.
> 
> It has been proven that packet reordering causes throughput and
> connection dropping issues in 1.3.0 through to 1.3.3 that did 
> not occur
> in 1.2.3.  I've added deliberate packet reordering to PPTP Client,
> proven that the problem occurs, and have called for assistance on this
> mailing list.
> 
> This is a critical problem, so a fix would increment the 
> stable version
> number, and I'd release a 1.3.4.
> 
> You could say then that 1.3.3 is a stable release with a release
> critical bug.
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron                         http://quozl.netrek.org/
> HP Open Source, Volunteer             http://opensource.hp.com/
> PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer 
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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