[SM-DEVEL] What's the release model currently?

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Hi,

I need to host an arbitrary old instance of SquirrelMail originally
not set up by me at all. Though, I needed to update that host from UB
16.04 to 20.04 because I needed a newer PHP and ran into some problems
with SquirrelMail, e.g. the INBOX simply doesn't show any mails for
anyone anymore. OTOH, sending mails still seems to work. This is most
likely because my version of Squirrel doesn't support the newer PHP
properly, e.g. I get the following error:

```
Kategorie: | PHP
-- | --
Nachricht: | Illegal string offset 'A001'
FILE: | /[...]/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php
LINE: | 456
```

During investigation of how to deal with problems like these I had a
look for newer releases, forks etc. of SquirrelMail and came across
the following GIT-repo, which made me aware that there are still
commits UPSTREAM as well.

https://github.com/RealityRipple/squirrelmail

Additionally, while the last official releases are years old, the
download page contains the following newer snapshots currently for
1.4.23 and 1.5.2.

> squirrelmail-20210321_0200-SVN.stable.tar.gz
> squirrelmail-20210321_0200-SVN.devel.tar.bz2

This makes me wonder what the current release process is, what the
linked GIT-repo is and stuff like that. Would be great if you could
explain this a bit to me, so that I know which verion of SquirrelMail
I should migrate to.

So, is the linked GitHub-repo some kind of official fork or is it
"only" an interested user like me? Any reason why you didn't release
anything for years, even though you seem to have maintained the
software? Are you going to release in the near future and if so, how
compatible will 1.4.23 with 1.4.22 and 1.5.2 with whatever pre-dated
that?

I would like to know if it makes more sense to e.g. work with trunk or
alike directly instead of waiting for releases. Am doing that for
other software as well already.

Thanks!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Thorsten Schöning

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