On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Imposit.com - Webmaster wrote: > Felix is right, in fiorst line developers are needed > What about the apache foundation and spamassasin maybe we should talk with > them to bring out an hybrid fork whatever :-) > > I agree completely. Without a set of committed developers, a fork cannot succeed. I do not see that a fork is neccessary/critical for DSPAM to continue. I do think that we need to do to better manage the patch aggregation and release bundling. In our use, slow, incremental, and robust changes are to be preferred in any product that interract with the E-mail processing. Mail is just too critical. One thing that is missing is a robust testing infrastructure to verify that new changes do not tank already working pieces of code and for all of the supported architectures.
My two cents, Ken > -----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Felix Schwarz > Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008 18:37 > An: Julien Valroff > Cc: Jani Partanen; dspam-users@lists.nuclearelephant.com > Betreff: [dspam-users] Re: Dspam Project still active? > > Julien Valroff schrieb: > > Could someone try and sum up what would be the required competences to > > set up such a fork? > > The same as always: Developers which are willing to work. As Jani I'm on > this list since several years. For every fork talk, something is > missing: People saying "I will do". > > Please stop offering hosting etc. This doesn't matter imho. What is > missing (and it was missing for every single fork thread in the past) is > developers. So if you are no developer, there is not much you can do. > > Any successful fork will need developers which do the hard work without > immediate gains. So I think a successful fork will 'just happen' by > someone who develops for his own and send patches. If there are enough > patches floating around, someone will set up more infrastructure. > > And don't bet on the hope that 'maybe not everyone is informed'. Getting > real developers (and not 'web developers') which can code C with high > quality is extremly hard. So either there are people on this list which > do just start or DSPAM will be frozen like the last years. > > fs > > PS: Don't get me wrong - I would really like to see more development > activities. But don't be naive: A successful fork is very hard and as a > non-developer you probably underestimate the effort needed by a factor > of 10. > > > > > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:1011,490762eb150922908112585!
