fwiw, I was going to say "Yes" to the first question. Not sure about the second question, though I've always wanted to see more sharing/give-back from those folks.
While there have been a bunch of mails on the dev list, most of it is incorrectly opened bugs, or other randomness. IMO, there hasn't been a lot of actual development going on in quite a while -- it's definitely *way* less than it was back in the 2004-2005 days (wow, really? I didn't realize that was so long ago...) I only speak for myself here, but SA mostly accomplished the goal that I wanted it to -- the vast (*vast*) majority of my spam was dealt with automatically, so I didn't have to think about it much anymore. That combined w/ several job-related changes, kind of pulled me away, which is why I haven't been very active since 2005. With sa-update, I had hoped that there'd be more effort in bug fixing and maintenance releases of older versions, along with more focus on rule development ... but that didn't really happen. That's actually the big killer, IMO: lack of rule development. New SA releases just update the engine, which is great, but there's diminishing returns to update something which works pretty well already. This is really why I wanted the third-party rule folks to get more involved w/ the main project (thereby being less "third-party" and thus giving more momentum to the project), but that never really happened either. These days there is basically no rule development going on, it seems. Justin's sought rules are the only ones really being updated, and that's because they're computer generated. :) That's actually something else I'm sad about -- we had such a huge corpus of mail, I would really like to have seen something that took advantage of it. So anyway ... Yeah, IMO, if more people don't get involved, and specifically to work on rule development, SA is going to completely stagnate. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Matt Kettler <mkettler...@verizon.net> wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> While there's a decent amount of spamassassin list traffic to imply >> otherwise, is the SA project falling dormant? >> >> the sare-rules claim they won't be updated due to lives, wives, and >> hockey. >> >> the fuzzyOCR project claims the only thing that works with 3.2 is the >> SVN version, and on the same page claims you shouln't really expect >> the SVN version to work. >> >> The wiki pages show the last release as almost a year ago, with no >> notice of any betas, pending releases, or whatnot. >> >> Many commercial products have happily used SA in their core offering, >> is that where the future of development is? > > Well, I can't speak for third-party efforts like SARE and fuzzyOCR. > However, you can check out the SA devel effort over on our dev list > archives: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-dev/200904.mbox/browser > > I'd say our effort has been a little lower than normal lately, but it's > hardly dead. We're trying to wrap 3.3 up, see the "3.3.0 plans" thread. > >
