Re: policyd-weight maintenance

[Robert Felber]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:31:09AM +1100, Morgan Weetman wrote:
> Summary:[offer to maintain policyd-weight]
> 
> > However, if you want to take over development and maintainership
> > you are welcome to also run the policyd-weight.org web service.
> 
> I have a server to run the site from but don't want to tread on any
> toes, being new here... if anyone else is interested, please say so

If you want, we can continue development on sourceforge. I would prefer
that because this gives the possibility to involve more that one person.

If you have a SF handle, tell me, and I will add you as developer.


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


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policyd-weight maintenance

[Morgan Weetman]

Summary:[offer to maintain policyd-weight]

> However, if you want to take over development and maintainership
> you are welcome to also run the policyd-weight.org web service.

I have a server to run the site from but don't want to tread on any
toes, being new here... if anyone else is interested, please say so

> Also you should sign on the mailing list and tell others
> that you want to continue, and what your plans and _your_ future
> philosophy with policyd-weight are.
> 
> 
> _My_ current philosophy was:
> 
> - as less modules as possible
> - low latency checks first
> - as many reliable short circuit decissions as possible

agreed, efficiency is at the top of my list, I would also like to see
policyd-weight packaged to make it more accessible. I'll start reading
code and we'll see if there are any other offers..

cheers,

Morgan



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Re: policyd-weight maintenance

[Robert Felber]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:00:41PM +1100, Morgan Weetman wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I am a systems engineer from Australia and I have been using
> policyd-weight for several months on my internet facing mail relays, the
> performance of the servers is vastly improved.
> 
> I read your announcement regarding stopping development and wanted
> to assist if possible, I have not read through the code to gain a full
> understanding but perl is my language of choice. Please let me know if /
> how I can help you out,

The major problem of policyd-weight is, that it is somewhat
non-deterministic - at least from "not-familiar-with-the-code"-point of
view.

Because of this it does also lack a good documentation which
expresses the constraints of each check and their different
results such, that it would make users able to find the right
knob to adjust  -- easily, if ever.


However, if you want to take over development and maintainership
you are welcome to also run the policyd-weight.org web service.


Also you should sign on the mailing list and tell others
that you want to continue, and what your plans and _your_ future
philosophy with policyd-weight are.


_My_ current philosophy was:

- as less modules as possible
- low latency checks first
- as many reliable short circuit decissions as possible


Next plan for 0.1.15 was:

- make policyd-weight multi-protocol
  multiplex capable (DNS/Policy Proto via the IO::Select module)

- provide parallel RBL lookups under some situations.

- configurable scoring of RBL returns (127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc)

- use client_name (at the right places) before asking DNS


If have also some patches laying around which I didn't have the time
to verify/adjust/correct/include yet.


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


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