Ken Lowther wrote:
> My biggest complaint with Qmail was that it was too fragmented for my taste. I
> thought it might be a better project if it were maintained in the same manner
> the Linux kernel is. Have you thought about that?
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> Ken
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Not to throw any negatives at Linus or the kernel team - Linux has been
a great environment for fostering innovation. Lots of things have been
invented there... some many times over in subtly different ways. Thus
thrives computer Darwinism <G>.
- But Linux has also become somewhat of an anarchistic free-for-all
along the way (what - over 100 distros now?). Getting to be a 'moving
target' for those building to it.
As Exim is a mature and quite stable "single release" product, I would
suggest the more conservative FreeBSD project management 'boardroom'
approach, else Exim might risk becoming fragmented in future...
JMTCW
Bill Hacker
> Quoting Philip Hazel <ph10@???>:
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>>(3) However, as I posted on this list some time ago, I feel that the
>>time has come to take stock of the way Exim is maintained, and to plan
>>for the future. I shall turn 60 next May, and therefore it is not so
>>many years before I retire. At the moment, I can just about handle the
>>maintenance and development, but it does not seem to be slackening - at
>>one time I thought it might. Therefore, as previously posted, when I get
>>back from Australia at the end of January, I intend to write a document
>>that discusses possible future maintenance strategies and sets out the
>>problems that I see in moving from the current "one-man-band"
>>operation[*] to to a more distributed way of doing it. There is no
>>hurry. We can take as long as necessary to discuss what the future
>>direction should be, and then start working towards it. I think we
>>should include in the discussion third party add-ons like Exiscan (I
>>hope Tom agrees!). Another example is the code that supports Sieve - at
>>present Michael sends me patches and I install them in the base.
>>
>>Philip
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>>[*] Preview: the big problems are going to be the documentation and the
>>testing suite.
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>>--
>>Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
>>ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>>Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book
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> Ken Lowther
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