Thanks for the perspective Tom. I commented without knowing the effort I was asking for. Sorry.
-Trent O'Callaghan -----Original Message----- From: Tom Eastep [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall 4.4.10 Beta 1 On 5/20/10 5:54 PM, Trent O'Callaghan wrote: > Hi Tom, > > IMHO 4.5.0 may be better suited to release 4.4.10 as networking is > rather central to firewalling, so adding new networking features > warrant more than a minor naming update. > > But of course, it is your call to make. If you don't install Shorewall-init and you don't define any 'required' or 'wait' interfaces, then there is absolutely no difference between 4.4.9 and 4.4.10-Beta1. That's why Shorewall-init is a separate product which you can choose to ignore. The 4.5 branch was terminated some time ago and it is unlikely to be resurrected. I'm in my mid 60's and I'm finding that I am more interested in travel and trying to restore my health than I am in working every free hour on Shorewall. As you reach my age, you find that the most precious things in your life are time and health, not hacking fun. And maintaining both stable and development branches adds considerable extra demand on my time. So unless some eager young people out there are willing to take this project by the horns and move it rapidly forward on both stable and development branches, you are going to be stuck with a single "mostly stable" branch that I will develop cautiously but possibly with an occasional hiccup. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
