Stefano, This is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. It's one that can be really easily delegated to a newbie.
I had a look at the JIRA stuff for IMAP. There are 5 open issues here, I assume that doesn't represent all the work required for a functional IMAP. Everyone I've spoken to about JAMES has ruled it out because there's no IMAP support (and a few have complained about the GUI) - Ok, enough already! So the Solution is... Break down IMAP stuff into little tasks like the logging one. This would have 3 effects... 1/ IMAP support would be perceived as very much an active task. 2/ People could watch the tasks being checked off - increasing confidence. 3/ Developers would have an entry point to the project which would reflect their/their boss's, requirements. If you advertised this effort clearly on the front page of the project website, I bet it would have a dramatic impact on the amount of interest and confidence generated in the project. Let's face it, JAMES is a great mail server; it has the ASF seal of approval; it runs on any platform, what more could you want? Well, at the moment "IMAP" doesn't appear anywhere on that front page. If you like this suggestion, I'll happily write some new content for the front page declaring how alive the IMAP effort is and explain how easy it is to contribute to the effort. I'll also write an eclipse quick- start (assuming I get it working nicely) so that contributing is as seamless as possible. With a feeling of inclusivity and that the project was reaching into new ground, as well as a clear framework to make contributions to a "vibrant" Apache JAMES project and in particular, to the things that matter to the current non-adopters, a lot of things that seem out of reach at the moment could quickly become just another stable feature of an already great mail server. Let me know what you think... -- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
