[leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Paul Gear wrote: Tom has finally admitted what some of us have thought all along. The day had to come. If you get to the point where you're not happy with your life, something has to give. And since none of us owe you anything, i think you've made the right choice, Tom. Best of luck and

[leaf-devel] RE: [Shorewall-users] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Sivamurugu K. Pillai
Tom, Your support had been so valuable as the shorewall itself. It has been a pleasure reading your replies on this channel. Shorewall has brought so much credibility to many net admins (and the would be net admins:-))from the Top Management of their organizations. And with shorewall

[leaf-devel] RE: [Shorewall-users] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Terry H. Gilsenan
All, I am prepared to host the website/domain, is there a group of people that are willing to be active in the ongoing support/development of shorewall? Regards, T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Eastep Sent: Wednesday, 18

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-users] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Ken Gregoire
Your passion shone through. Thank you. Tom Eastep wrote: It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Sean's post has finally driven it home to me that in the long term, trying to support a project like Shorewall is impossible for a person

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-announce] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Micha Silver
Tom Eastep wrote: It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Tom: Thanks for everything you've done. And stay well. Regards, Micha --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space

[leaf-devel] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Sean's post has finally driven it home to me that in the long term, trying to support a project like Shorewall is impossible for a person of my personality and age. Sean -- please believe that this

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-announce] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Gear
Tom Eastep wrote: It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Sean's post has finally driven it home to me that in the long term, trying to support a project like Shorewall is impossible for a person of my personality and age. ... Unlike

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:25, Tom Eastep wrote: Paul Gear wrote: As for the mechanics of shorewall.net going away: we have a functional sourceforge.net project page and web site for shorewall. If Tom is willing, perhaps he could add some of us on the devel list as project admins on his

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote: If you need help with SF, let me know. Am i right in remembering that lists.shorewall.net is hosted elsewhere, Tom? No, lists.shorewall.net is hosted here in my home. It's the same box as http://shorewall.net which is the system that all of the mirrors (including

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:22, Tom Eastep wrote: Mike Noyes wrote: I don't mind continuing to host the mailing lists here for a while until mailing lists can be reestablished at SF (they were there once upon a time). The SF staff will even import your pipermail archive, so the content

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:22, Tom Eastep wrote: Mike Noyes wrote: The SF staff will even import your pipermail archive, so the content isn't lost. SF will upgrade Mailman shortly too, so the list settings shouldn't need much tweaking. Tom, Correction: MBOX import is supported. No pipermail

Re: [leaf-devel] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Scott Best
Tom: My very best wishes for a happy and healthy future for you. And my congrats and appreciation for what you achieved with Shorewall; it remains an excellent implementation. cheers, Scott On May 17, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Tom Eastep wrote: It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:22, Tom Eastep wrote: Mike Noyes wrote: I don't mind continuing to host the mailing lists here for a while until mailing lists can be reestablished at SF (they were there once upon a time). The SF staff will even import your pipermail archive, so the

[leaf-devel] Re: what to do about shorewall?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Paul Traina wrote: [Tom, just cc'ing you if you want to chime in about the stability/appropriateness of 2.3] So as you guys know, I made the shorewall packages for BU based on the stable 2.2 branch of shorewall. If shorewall is moved from shorewall.net to sourceforge and taken over by

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread KP Kirchdörfer
Tom; Many thanks to you from the Bering(-uclibc) developers as well. Shorewall made iptables easy and helped a lot to build a secure box. All the best to you - we will miss you. Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 17:25 schrieb Tom Eastep: Paul Gear wrote: - We need to look at the big issues

Re: [leaf-devel] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastep wrote: | It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is | officially ended. Tom, First, many thanks for creating the firewall that I now use to replace the customized scripts from my earlier LRP/LEAF releases. I

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-announce] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Simon Matter
It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Hi Tom, All I can say is THANK YOU very much for all the hard work you have put into Shorewall and it's great documentation and the best support I have seen in my life. I hope you will get your life

Re: [leaf-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 10:18, Tom Eastep wrote: Mike Noyes wrote: Have you considered moving CVS? I believe you haven't migrated to SVN, so CVS tarball import by the SF staff is possible. Maybe tarball the repository after your last release? Yes -- that will work fine. Tom, SourceForge

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Cristian Rodriguez wrote: 2005/5/18, Tom Eastep [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - We need to look at the big issues and make sure we've got a good handle on them. For me, these include (in rough order of priority from my perspective): * Multiple ISPs load balancing * Features to enable building a

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:57, Tom Eastep wrote: Cristian Rodriguez wrote: Possibly Mike Noyes can help you with coming up with a new arrangement; he has offered to help with things at the Sourceforge end. I'm uncertain how to set up a publishing scheme based at Sourceforge that can keep the

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote: Do you pull or push with rsync? SF doesn't offer public rsync hosting. Only project members with shell access can rsync to/from the shell. Currently, all of the mirrors pull from rsync.shorewall.net. I use a script on SF to xslt docbook xml to html. It's not great, but it

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:28, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: 2005/5/18, Tom Eastep [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've attached the simple scripts that I use to publish to Sourceforge and to my own server (shorewall.net AKA lists.shorewall.net AKA cvs.shorewall.net AKA rsync.shorewall.net).

[leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Tom Eastep
Paul Gear wrote: Cristian Rodriguez wrote: ... My ideas are the following: 1. Declare Shorewall alive but feature frozen,only bug fixes, until we can organize and get the needed coders,especially some good bash coders and an iptables geek (¿anyone?) 2.I can take care of a mirror and enrole me

Re: [leaf-devel] Re: [Shorewall-devel] What happens now?

2005-05-18 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Noyes wrote: | On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:28, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: | 2005/5/18, Tom Eastep [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I've attached the simple scripts that I use to publish to Sourceforge | and to my own server (shorewall.net AKA

Re: [leaf-devel] I quit.

2005-05-18 Thread Lynn Avants
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:17 pm, Tom Eastep wrote: It is with regret that I announce that Shorewall development and support is officially ended. Tom, The enormous amount of time and energy you have put in to develop, promote, and support Shorewall has been appreciated more than you will likely