On 2/9/09 6:04 PM, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:51, Graeme Fowler wrote:It strikes me that we are where we are because there's no one person driving development forward - either by being the "crazy ideas guy", or by actually doing the coding. Looking at Bugzilla is depressing :(Well yes. Unfortunately it needs some people who can put effort into things like coding and release management, and at this time I don't see those people around. There are a lot of people calling for other people to do things, or making bike shedding suggestions (ie changing to git - which is somewhat ineffective if there is no one producing changes to version). My position is that I do not do mail as any significant part of my work now, so cannot put any work time towards exim. I also do not have vast reserves of spare time to push to exim although I have been trying to at least keep infrastructure etc running. This also means I am falling further and further out of touch with the current state of the MTA art.... So maybe its time to push out a current snapshot as a release and close down.... [and yes, I realise that this is basically a call for other people to do things, although in my defence I am at least not asking for them to do things for me as I am effectively no longer an exim customer]
Perhaps it could be a good idea to list which things are needed as a list of "jobs" people could apply to. Like you mail is now only a very small subset of my job now, but I still have my personal servers, so I could do things if I knew what is to be done. I guess assigning people to small specific tasks could be a benefit and lower the load on your shoulders. Tasks just have to be defined.
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