I saw in Tom's recent changes to the roadmap [0] that there will be a version of Shorewall that supports IPv6. Personally, I am not too sure about the name Shorewall6. Though I know that some other projects have done something similar (like tcpdump and tcpdump6). However, I really have no idea what be a good name for the new IPv6-supporting Shorewall. I think that something like Shorewall-ng is probably not good. What will the name be when the next version of IP comes out?
I would like to propose something. Since the 4.0 series is still early in its life we have the ability to change the naming scheme without confusing things too much. I think that keeping the 4.0 releases named in that way would be good. The development of that branch should continue with 4.0 becoming 4.1 eventually and so on. That branch should continue to support only IPv4. The IPv6-supporting version of shorewall would start with a 6.0 release. The releases would continue with 6.1 versions and so on. In this way, Shorewall releases would have the major release number indicate that latest IP version that they support and the following numbers would would indicate the release and patch level. This will also future-proof the version numbering against future releases of the IP standard. I am just thinking off the top of my head, so feel free to modify my idea or tell me that it is no good altogether. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://trac.shorewall.net/roadmap -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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