On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, David Clayton wrote:
I know that IPSEC isn’t quite as ‘sexy’ as the work being done over at
LibreOffice, but I would like to suggest some minor improvements that I feel
would
make a big difference:
Creation of a ‘marketing’ or ‘general’ section of the website – somewhere to
see a list of Linux distributions currently using LS (and therefore those
not), I’m new to the game, so not quite sure how established communication
works between the distributions, but on Saturday Mike Gilbert (Gentoo) posted
about integration with their distribution, and it (appeared to me) that he may
have accidently stumbled upon the existence of LS, relying on the
distribution maintainers being ‘in the know’ and aware of new packages, rather
than directly contacted with an e-mail saying ‘hey, don’t you know we are
the new name in IPSEC’. Please forgive my ignorance if there is already
something in place, or all the distribution maintainers have already been
personally contacted.
I've done some work offline for the wiki and will continue to do so in
the next few days. I'll add a section for this.
The next on my list would be a roadmap – this might be a difficult subject as I
seem to remember the OpenSwan roadmap / wish list / bug tracker seemed to
get rolled into one page that (again my personal opinion) never got updated, or
gave a true reflection on the status of the project.
Yeah, it never got updated. Which is why I like the roadmap based on
bugzilla better, but also the old openswan mantis roadmap based on bug
and feature items did not reflect at all what it should. So perhaps a
manual road map page would be a good start.
A wish or feature list separate from a bug report, on which I would request
things like, improved logging / detailed error messages, or output of real time
tunnel status (SA lifetime) etc (for easy pickup by a GUI).
I think those requests are better discussed on the list and then filed
by one of the developers as feature or bug. On a related note, we do
want to present a new "status" output that's more in json style, so
people can write tools to see/filter what they are interested in. The
current "status" tried to stick with the old "ftp style" of prefacing
each line with a XXX status value (error, informational, etc)
I know that the community for LibreSwan is never going to get anywhere near the
size of LibreOffice, but a small amount of marketing could (I hope)
significantly improve the uptake of LS across the distributions.
Indeed.
I would be willing to offer my assistance, albeit within my limited technical
ability.
I use git-mediawiki to work on our wiki right now, which i find easier
to use than the wiki itself, but you can also use the wiki directly.
I'm happy to take your offer to help us :) Let me know what your wiki
user is, and I can give it some more permissions to make changes.
Paul
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