On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 10:36:37AM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 12:54:41PM +0300, Henrik Krohns wrote: > > > > These kinds of changes just make you wonder what's the point of doing such > > plugins inside SA distribution.. if we ever do get 4.0 released, I really > > doubt if there are enough resources in the project to even release monthly > > updates after that.. > > > I have no problem in working out-of-tree but distros will probably > never package an external plugin and, in some cases, it may be better > an outdated plugin then no plugin at all. > Releasing every some months could help, distro will ship outdated packages > in any case but I do not think we can do much to improve that situation.
Bumping up this discussion due to: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7989 In current state the Esp.pm likely too vague for any users to use. It should be clearly documented where the feed files are found, and what format they should be expected to be in. An external github page related to the plugin does not constitute as documentation. Somewhat agree with Michael's comment that the module shouldn't be an advertisement for Invaluement either. Then again, at this time Invaluement doesn't even seem to be providing the data, so what use is for the module? For the actual reply to Giovannis comment, "it may be better an outdated plugin then no plugin at all": Again, what use is the plugin as users actually need knowledge and effort to setup the feed downloads and make sure they work. With the same effort they can download up-to-date module from Github into /etc/mail/spamassassin.
