Re: Announce: I stop development of policyd-weight

[Jan Wagner]

Hi,

On Saturday 09 February 2008 13:55, Robert Felber wrote:
> Those seeking an alternative to policyd-weight might want to have a
> look at postfwd - which makes the step to stop on policyd-weight
> easier.

thanks Robert for keeping the project so long at a good shape. I know how busy 
reallife could keep (especialy family). Many thanks!

Since there seems no process of taking over the maintainance ... I did build 
experimental debian packages of postfw, as it was recommanded here. You can 
find them at http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/official/postfwd/. Please 
report any problem you find about packageing.

Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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Announce: I stop development of policyd-weight

[Robert Felber]

Hello,


to put it short: I don't develop policyd-weight any further, nor do
I do any patching.


I don't have the time and resources anymore. Real- and Work-Life 
keeps me way to busy (When I started policyd-weight in 2005
I was able to program up to 48 hours. Today, with family 
and so on, I only have 1 to 2 hours with interrupts - while 
I need up to 1 or 2 hours to become familiar with the code again).


I do this step also because I realized I cannot provide, due to
the time-constraints, the constant reliability required for 
such a project anymore. I think, it is my responsibility to
stop, when the quality/reliability of development gets lower.
Probably I should even have done this step earlier.


Another reason is, if I receive patches, they often contain
module dependencies. I don't like to reject such patches
or to stress users to not use modules. You will know what I
mean if you received the Nth patch containing yet another simple
module and if you look one day at the memory footprint or if you
find yourself debugging N foreign modules.


If someone wants to continue with policyd-weight then it would
also be nice, if he takes over the policyd-weight.org domain.
I also appreciate maintainers-only.


Those seeking an alternative to policyd-weight might want to have a
look at postfwd - which makes the step to stop on policyd-weight
easier.


I will keep the ML running until a new maintainer has set up
a new ML.




-- 
Robert Felber (PGP: 896CF30B)
Munich, Germany


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