On Wed, 2008-19-03 at 20:36 -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > >Actually it seems already broken into modules: > >http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall-perl.html > > > >and it would be more polite to check with the author first. > > Sure, but don't let unresponsiveness stand in the way. What does the > author lose if you wrote some code before they knew about it?
Tom Eastep, the author, spent about 10 years supporting shorewall by himself, answering every end-user question he could handle. A couple of years ago, he almost gave up because of the workload -- he works for HP during the day. I don't think you can fairly call him unresponsive. He might like to mentor someone. [btw, i have never corresponded with him but I read the shorewall email list archives extensively as part of my research into which firewall to use -- i was concerned he might discontinue support] > > >> simple matter of > >> time and coffee :) > > Well, such a task maybe isn't really suited for SoC. Refactoring and > adding tests is useful, but is a totally different project than > creating something new. Life's a bitch. -- --gh
