Fair enough. You'll find with many open source projects that if you want a current (albeit unstable) version, then you have to dig into cvs/svn. I haven't got the hang of SVN just yet... but viewcvs makes it easier!
I agree with the comments about JIRA/mailing list. I think JIRA needs to be more used, as it helps keep things more organised/accessible. I am guilty of sending patches/comments to the mailing list that really should be in JIRA. Obviously putting everything into JIRA isn't the solution, as people (committers) need to be reviewing the JIRA requests, and reviewing code, commenting, and where appropriate committing the code to SVN.
I think JIRA should be used for exactly that: keeping track of bugs/feature requests and their proposed patches. There's a bunch of 'dangling' patches still in JIRA and it would be nice if there was a commiter that reviewed them every once and a while.
Fair comment. Is there a need for a release? Has anything much changed since rc1?
Erm, as far as I know there was a pretty serious bug in fetchmail, and Vicenzo added the s/mime mailets. The 'rc' part of the version number implies that there will be an officially supported release 'soon' though...
Yes, but no one dares to make a patched release of one of the deprecated components and incorporate it into James. I proposed a patch in the Phoenix container but it was very unclear if it could be part of a new James release.
Why not? I don't see a problem with patching deprecated components. In fact, once they're deprecated, there's no longer any reason to go through the steps trying to get it incorporated in the proper component.
I do think that even with patched deprecated components there should be a decent release. (In the case that the original source can be found of course -- there are cases in JAMS where the source of the actual component is sort of missing in action.)
I tried to propose a patch to phoenix once, but it sort of died in the process of discussing it. (I suspect because it only affected Windows users.) It was not made clear when a patch for phoenix or any other dead component would be accepted. So I assumed the short answer is "no, we don't patch components".
Cheers,
Hes.
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