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Author: Alain Williams
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To: Niall Mansfield, Exim Users
CC: Philip Hazel
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim/email-related stream at UKUUG conference, Birmingham, 7/8/9-August-2009
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:38:01AM +0100, Niall Mansfield wrote:
> On Jul 13, 8:55pm, Alain Williams wrote:
> > Should there be a BOF/open session on exim maintainance -- which
> > is decidedly down since Phil retired ?
>
> We can certainly arrange that if there is a demand. We've booked extra
> rooms for BOFs and project-specific meetings, but we do need to know in
> advance roughly how many people are interested, so we can schedule the
> room, or include this as a talk in the regular streams.
>
> If you are interested, e-mail to exim-ukuug at uit dot co dot uk


I am interested. The latest exim (4.66) is 2 years old, if it gets much older
it will start to rot. I notice that 'tom' has been making changes ...

There are some nice BOF rooms at that venue.

I think that it would be very helpful if we were to prepare some kind
of outline on what we would like to achieve. I'll chuck in a few
suggestions to get the ball rolling:

* Bug fixes - how we prioritise

* Enhancements - what new features do we need

* External changes - should we collect/merge back in ?
I am thinking of changes that Linux-distros/... may have made.

* Funding - could we pursuade some large corporates/... with a bit of funding
that could be used to pay someone to do this -- perhaps part time.

I nominate Niall & myself as scribes of the event -- to try and get some
kind of report out to this list/whereever.

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Alain Williams
Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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