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Re: something that is almost like a plan!
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Andy Balholm |
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Re: something that is almost like a plan! |
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Sat, 1 Aug 2020 09:56:31 -0700 |
Sounds good to me!
Andy
> On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:32 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings spamass-milter people:
>
> Todd has graciously added me as a maintainer on savanannah.nongu.org.
> While there are 5 people listed, the other three have not been heard
> from in a while, so we will proceed and of course be happy to discuss
> should they or really anyone want to reappear.
>
> The word "Plan is a bit too strong, but the notion is minimal
> maintenance and a release, to share lttle fixes and avoid the perception
> of an abandoned project. Steps of the almost-plan include:
>
> 1. Taking patches from Andy's repo, pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, Debian, and
> other places and applying them to the repo.
>
> 2. Understanding changes from previous release to now
>
> 3. Cleaning up the bug tracker:
>
> There are many open bugs, and a lot of them date to many years before
> 0.4.0. It's too hard to figure out if they still apply. So I at least
> will be heavy handed in closing bugs that are old. As I said in this
> NEWS item, please feel free to retest with 0.4.0 and reopen. I don't
> mean to be unkind about this -- there just aren't the cycles for some
> mythical team of developers to try to reproduce them. If you have an
> open bug and still care, please get updated to 0.4.0, test and note that
> in the comments.
>
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9788
>
> 4. Release the accumulated clearly-ok changes. This might be 0.4.1,
> because it's not much, but TBD from step 2.
>
> After that, perhaps repeat as necessary, perhaps fix compilation
> warnings and/or sanitizer output. Also discuss here and apply larger
> changes.
>
> Not on the near-term agenda is:
>
> N1. Changing the VCS (because that's not the problem - but this is not
> doctrine, just "no plan to do it soon"))
>
> N2. Developing features (because there is no articulated need and it's hard)
>
> N3. Rototilling the code (because that's not helpful and makes merging harder)
>
> However if people hve improvements, please post your patches/etc. on the
> list at least. I don't mean to discourage that, just to be clear that I
> (and I think Todd) have no plans to dig in and do lots of work.
>
> Greg
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