dovecot - Oct 2022 - The end of Dovecot Director?

> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur <afamiliartaste at proton.me>
wrote:
> 
>  
> I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core Github
repository:
>
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358
> 
> Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next major
version of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster architecture will be its
successor:
>
https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/blob/a85b742ec4fc2744db30a6943b3c25f004e46720/source/admin_manual/cluster/index.rst
> 
Yes, this is going to happen.
> This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world that are
currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage environment.
> 
> Can anyone of the Dovecot developers maybe enlighten us about the future of
Dovecot?
> - Will there still be the Director feature in the next community release of
Dovecot?
Next 2.3 CE release will have a director.
> - If not, will there be a community feature that is on par with the current
Director feature?
There will be more information about this closer to new major release, that we
are working on. Director is still present in
https://github.com/dovecot/core/tree/release-2.3
> - For how long will Dovecot version 2.3 still be supported (security fixes,
bug fixes)? Is there any EOL plan?
> 
This will be informed later, but as general rule, once we make a new major
release, 2.3 will go into maintenance mode, and will receive only select bug
fixes and CVE fixes.
> Thanks for any clarification!
> Steff
Aki

I'm top posting because I can't make heads or tails of this thread.
Does this thread mean that Dovecot will no longer be Free Software? 

It appears that only Dovecot Director will be taken proprietary, but if
all of Dovecot is in jeopardy, I need to switch to another local IMAP
server program. Any suggestions will be welcome.

Thanks,

SteveT


Aki Tuomi said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:02:38 +0300 (EEST)
>> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur <afamiliartaste at
proton.me>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core
>> Github repository:
>>
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358
>> 
>> Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next
>> major version of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster
>> architecture will be its successor:
>>
https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/blob/a85b742ec4fc2744db30a6943b3c25f004e46720/source/admin_manual/cluster/index.rst
>
>Yes, this is going to happen.
>
>> This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world
>> that are currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage
>> environment.
>> 
>> Can anyone of the Dovecot developers maybe enlighten us about the
>> future of Dovecot?
>> - Will there still be the Director feature in the next community
>> release of Dovecot?  
>
>Next 2.3 CE release will have a director.
>
>> - If not, will there be a community feature that is on par with the
>> current Director feature?  
>
>There will be more information about this closer to new major release,
>that we are working on. Director is still present in
>https://github.com/dovecot/core/tree/release-2.3
>
>> - For how long will Dovecot version 2.3 still be supported (security
>> fixes, bug fixes)? Is there any EOL plan? 
>
>This will be informed later, but as general rule, once we make a new
>major release, 2.3 will go into maintenance mode, and will receive
>only select bug fixes and CVE fixes.
>
>> Thanks for any clarification!
>> Steff  
>
>Aki

SteveT

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