On Nov 26, 2007 2:35 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so it would be > > very good for project if some of them would join if there will be a new > > project based dspam. > > Be sure that everyone using DSPAM and capable of coding or doing > other thins for DSPAM and some spare time will work on and for a forked > DSPAM. Gentoo as community based Linux distro will sure be on board. > I don't mean just me. All of the Gentoo users and maintainers.
Maybe I missed something (I don't follow this list too closely and am not subscribed to the dev list), but what's keeping us from expanding the existing dspam development team (which only includes Jonathan right now, right?) to include more committers and to keep this project going forward when Jonathan doesn't have the bandwidth to work on dspam? While in some cases forks are unavoidable, I would prefer to see the development of dspam grow instead of splinter. Is there something that is keeping this from happening? I do see that dspam asks contributors to relinquish their copyright over new code to the "DSPAM project and its primary governors"[1] I could see where some people might not want to do this as this gives the dspam project authority to fork the project into a closed source project. I certainly would hesitate to hand over my copyright to the project if I were to write any substantial amount of code, though this practice isn't necessarily uncommon for larger projects under the Apache/GNU/and other projects. > > I don't know debian community well but I think they have done some > > tweaking too. > > Not to forget all 20 or something like that patches what is posted on devs > > list. > > Gentoo has currently 27 patches for DSPAM 3.8.0. You you have a handy site to browse these patches? I have a couple of dspam 3.8.0 installs which could benefit from these. -Dave [1] http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/resources.shtml - See "Important Information for Contributors"
