I'm included on the list of people who are using 3.6.8 and that's because I'm running The SpamSnake based on Ubuntu. I would have 2 completely different versions of the SpamSnake, however, I couldn't get the history page to work using shared,manage on 3.6.8. Instead, I use it after MailScanner, to supplement Spamassassin in the fight against spam.
I contacted Jonathan A. Zdziarski himself and he told me about the rights being sold. If someone or a group of people wants to develop/maintain the Dspam project, I think it would be wise to first contact Sensory Networks. They may not want us messing around with their software and would probably expect us to donate something in return for their permission to maintain it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rogers Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:30 AM To: dspam-users@lists.nuclearelephant.com Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: [dspam-users] Dspam Project still active? Imposit.com - Webmaster wrote: > Sorry mark but I cant agree > > Dspam need active development. The current state (and im not talking about > the bugs) is maybe somekind of stable > OK, maybe I should be clearer. Maintenance is essential. That means someone (or a group of people) must collect patches, keep the source repository up to date and (this is the bit that is missing) manage releases. Ideally they should actively liase with distro package maintainers to see the current release available as a package for those distros. All of these things will allow the userbase to increase not decline. With an increasing userbase there will be (a) an increase in the number of things on the dspam "wish list", and (b) an increase in the number of developers able and (crucially) willing to act on them. With the above maintenance in place the route for those improvements to get out to the users is already there. However, whilst I can get involved in some aspects of the coding (primarily in the web interface), I'm currently "stuck" at 3.6.8 because I choose not to use custom builds on production servers and I'm using Debian packages for everything else. There will be many people who are not interested in relying on CVS builds for production systems and without them the chances of finding active developers will dwindle. I'm sure that most of us do not routinely build our own kernels and Apache, Postfix, Perl, etc, even though many of us are more than capable of doing so. The number of people asking questions on this list about 3.6.8 confirms this - in theory nobody should really be using 3.6.8 anymore, yet many many people are still installing it on new systems, never mind maintaining it on legacy systems. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG !DSPAM:1011,48f735aa150921047970997!
