Hi! Since netfilter/iptables is a volunteer based effort, the project lives by more participation and involvement of it's user community.
While we receive lots of code contributions (new matches/targets, patches, bugfixes, ...), there is lots of work in different areas that needs to be taken care of. The netfilter core team is currently looking for help in the following areas: 1) Converting our old Linuxdoc SGML HOWTO's to Docbook XML The various HOWTO's have been written years ago, in the now deprecated Linuxdoc SGML DTD. There is an XSL to transform it into linuxdoc SGML, and it needs some further manual cleanup after that transformation process. This needs to be done for the english master documents as well as for the translations. If you are familiar with working with SGML/XML and the respective toolchain and willing to help us in that matter, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Development of a mirror-consistency-checking script It is important to us, that the netfilter.org mirrors always have the latest up-to-date information on them. To guarantee this, we would like to have a script that can be run as cron job. That script would recursively download all pages from a given mirror site, and compare them with the content of the master server. This would have to be for both, ftp and www mirrors. Preferred scripting language is Perl. Since this seems to be a quite common job, I've been browsing freshmeat.net for something like this. Unfortunately, I was unable to find something. If you know such a script or are willing to write one, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Tune our docbook-website XSL's to produce 100% valid XHTML 1.0 The new homepage (http://www.netfilter.org/) is built from XML in docbook-website 2.4.1 DTD. We have some custom modified XSL's, and the result is not always valid XHTML. You should be familiar with XML, XHTML and XSL if you want to volunteer in that area. docbook-website is quite easy to understand. 4) Maintainance of the lists.netfilter.org mailman mailinglists We're running a number of mailman-2.0 lists on a quite advanced mailserver with virus scanning (exiscan-acl), spam filtering (spamassassin). We're pushing about 50,000 to 100,000 mails per day to our subscribers. Administration of the mailinglists (taking care of bounces that are not automatically detected, stupid users who are unable to unsubscribe them, post held for moderation, ...) is currently done by Harald, who would rather spend more time on development than on daily-mailman-webinterface-clicking. Anybody who knows how to use a mailman web frontend and is masochistic enough for the job would be accepted :) 5) Maintainance of 'Links' section on our homepage The http://www.netfilter.org/links.html page is looking almost the same for a couple of years. Nobody is taking care of them really, nobody checks for broken links. It really needs somebody to collect links for pages related to netfilter/iptables on the web, and maintaining that list of links. Ideally we would have a database-generated categorized links section (not only a single page) on our website, where people could suggest new links (to be approved by a moderator) via a HTML form. If yoou want to hack up a bunch of scripts, that would be great - but that is optional. 6) Maintainance of the netfilter/iptables FAQ The netfilter FAQ is not very actively maintained these days. This is because the maintainer is (guess who): Harald - and as stated before he really loves to code, rather than writing text... Also, he's no longer reading the netfilter user mainlinglist very frequent anymore, so he's not a good candidate to know which questions get asked often and which not. If you are a frequent reader of netfilter and netfilter-devel, you might be a good candidate. You don't have to be the biggest iptables guru for that kind of job... you just copy the good answers from the mails into the FAQ ;) btw: the FAQ has already been converted to Linuxdoc XML :) 7) Customization / Development of a FAQ-O-Matic system Ideally, we would have an online FAQ-O-Matic system, where people could post online comments, ask new questions, etc. However, everything has to get moderator approval before it appears on the webpage. Also, all output would have to be static HTML pages, as we really disapprove PHP/mod_perl and other dynamic content. If you know such a sytstem, or one that could be modified in a way to suit our needs, please contact us. If you want to help us in any of those areas, please don't hesitate to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] in advance. Please don't start on your own, otherwise uncoordinated and duplicate results can waste your appreciated ressources. Thank you very much, Harald (for the netfilter core team) -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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