On 2/9/09 6:04 PM, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:51, Graeme Fowler wrote:
>> It strikes me that we are where we are because there's no one person
>> driving development forward - either by being the "crazy ideas guy",
>> or
>> by actually doing the coding. Looking at Bugzilla is depressing :(
>
>
> Well yes.
> Unfortunately it needs some people who can put effort into things like
> coding and release management, and at this time I don't see those
> people around.
>
> There are a lot of people calling for other people to do things,
> or making bike shedding suggestions (ie changing to git - which is
> somewhat ineffective if there is no one producing changes to version).
>
> My position is that I do not do mail as any significant part of my
> work now, so cannot put any work time towards exim. I also do not
> have vast reserves of spare time to push to exim although I have
> been trying to at least keep infrastructure etc running. This also
> means I am falling further and further out of touch with the current
> state of the MTA art....
>
> So maybe its time to push out a current snapshot as a release and
> close down....
>
> [and yes, I realise that this is basically a call for other people to
> do things, although in my defence I am at least not asking for them to
> do things for me as I am effectively no longer an exim customer]
>
Perhaps it could be a good idea to list which things are needed as a
list of "jobs" people could apply to.
Like you mail is now only a very small subset of my job now, but I still
have my personal servers, so I could do things if I knew what is to be
done. I guess assigning people to small specific tasks could be a
benefit and lower the load on your shoulders. Tasks just have to be defined.
