On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:36:52PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > Exim development is currently effectively dead. We are averaging > maybe one CVS commit a month (and worse, we are still = on CVS). > > We currently have no one to manage a release (well one possible), > and no one volunteering to take on this work. > > If there is no one else taking this on then I will build a release, > however I will also document it as being the last exim release as > the development community is unable to sustain further work, so the > only reasonable recommendation is for people to transition to a > mailer that has long term support.
This is disturbing news. Exim is widely deployed and an important piece of software and I find it hard to believe that noone cares enough to step up (I guess I didn't realise how bad it was before). I use Exim and although I'm not a C programmer I am happy to help out in any way I can. I've managed small open source software projects before and handled release processes, and I'm familiar with version control systems - and I'm a systems administrator by day. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
