My sincere hope is that if the products are no longer going to be
supported by the university, that the development can be continued by
the open-source community.
AFAICT, uw-imapd and Alpine are each available under the Apache 2.0
license, so I think that means that derivatives can be built and
maintained by others even if UW stops maintaining it.
Now all we need to do is find someone passionate enough about it to seed
a project on a public server and commit to maintaining it....
Tim Mooney wrote:
In regard to: [Imap-uw] Question for Mark re future of imapd &
Alpine,...:
Just read the Seattle Times article about the massive layoff in UW's
IT group due to reduced use of UW computing resources caused by users
shifting to webmail and other web-based resources.
This is maybe a question for you to pass on to one of the survivors,
but any guesses as to what this means for future imapd and Alpine work?
It's pretty unlikely Marc is even reading this list anymore. However, he
did list the alpine-contacts address in his farewell message, and I
contacted that address with the exact same questions.
The short answer is that they don't know. As you can imagine, there's a
great deal of uncertainty after losing so many people.
I asked them to hypothesize about the future of imapd. I suggested that
from my point of view, the future of UW imapd looked grim. They more or
less agreed with my assessment.
In a later message, I asked about alpine, in particular Web Alpine 2.0.
The consensus was that it's pretty likely that Alpine 2.0 will still see
the light of day. Beyond that release, it may be that the driving force
in development may need to come from outside UW.
I was really looking forward to Web Alpine 2.0 too; the mockups on the
web
site look really nice. I hope it survives.
Tim
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