Hallo all, I don't know how to start this mail? It's been long time since I started working on DSPAM and the last 18 months since DSPAM is a community project I have fixed a lot of issues with DSPAM and changed much code. Sometime things where easy and sometime things whre not that easy. Anyway... in the last weeks I have been struggeling with the whole DSPAM project. Things are getting out of control. The project it self has about 6 admins that should manage the project. Yeah. Six admins. I am almost 100% confident the community does not know who those 6 admins are. Whatever... I tried to do as much as I can to continue doing tasks that where supposed to be done by others but I have my limits. I can not continue to do that much work and still find places where I can not continue because I don't have the access privileges or I don't know how to fulfill that task. I feel bad being a part of this chaos or mess. IMHO this all needs to be reorganized and needs to have a better structure that one can relay on.
My problem is that I can not have that relax attitude and just let things go. If I am on the mailing list and I see a question then I respond (if I have time or I respond when I get time). Somehow as one of the admins behind DSPAM I feel responsible. And this is not good. Not good for me. I must take a step back and relax. And to get into that relax mode I planed for my self to deregister by end of August from the DSPAM mailing list. And now we have end of August. So it's time for me to go :) I will stay on the Sourceforge project page of DSPAM (if no other admin kicks me) and will from time to time do coding/bugfixing for DSPAM. But I can not continue feeling responsible for something that I am not. I have probably not written in proper English what I wanted to say. Writing in English is not always as easy as I would like it to be. Anyway... point is that I will try to follow the common sense and idle too. I will off course do bug fixing if you guys fill in bug reports at Sourceforge and I will try to respond to questions if you address me directly (please don't, if you can. The DSPAM mailing list is the right place for questions not me!), but I will not proactively do huge code changes like in the past. I have my own local fork/branch of DSPAM where I have started to do things and this will be the place where I will do most of my future DSPAM coding. If I stumble across something very nasty then I will of course fix that in stock DSPAM too. If I can give an advice to you guys out there using DSPAM then I would say that you all should somehow organize and try to streamline the project. It's a community project and as a community you guys should take influence on the project. The project needs IHMO better directions. So guys! I hope you don't get mad at me? I could have quitely deregistered my self from the mailing list and stopped coding but I have choosen to be open. It's not my style to vanish. I have not written this long mail here to ask for something. I just want to inform and be open with you all. The last 18 months with DSPAM community have been a great time and I am sure the future will be fun too. And I see my self as a community member too. I will continue to use DSPAM and will still be a part of the community. I just need to do something against this stupid feeling inside me that keeps telling me that I should feel responsible while my head tells me that I am not and should relax. I can not stand the feeling trying to advance while seeing and knowing that it is not possible. At least not how it is right now. -- Kind Regards from Switzerland, Stevan Bajić ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Dspam-devel mailing list Dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-devel
