| I don’t even use spamass-milter myself any more (I switched to rspamd). I’m willing to keep on as the clearinghouse of patches, but it would make more sense for the distribution packagers (like the two of you) to pick up where I left off and run a more professional maintenance fork.
The project on nongnu is clearly dead. The most recent exchange on the mailing list before this one was me asking about the status of the project in 2016. The only reply I got was from Greg. At the conclusion of that thread I said:
I have put a copy of the source (with my man page patch) at https://github.com/andybalholm/spamass-milter. Feel free to file issues and pull requests there. If/when we get the attention of a project member, the changes can be merged back into the official CVS repository.
Obviously we never got the attention of a project member.
Andy
[Resending so it might actually make it out to the list this time]If memory serves me right, Greg Troxel wrote:I maintain he spamass-milter entry in pkgsrc.
I see that the last release is 0.4.0, in 2014, and there are no NEWS
entries after that.
I was recently reminded of
https://github.com/andybalholm/spamass-milter
and several things are unclear to me:
status of the spamass-milter project on savannah.nongnu.org. It looks
to me like there has been no activity since 2014.
is andybalholm's repo some kind of fork
None of this is intended as criticism; I understand that everyone has
too many things to do and continuation forks are often appropriate. I
am simply asking that the current situation be clear on all sites that
are or have been official or semi-official spamass-milter sites.
It would be nice to have whatever status is available appear on the
savannah page, perhaps as a NEWS entry.
Hi Greg--I "maintain" spamass-milter for FreeBSD Ports (I use quotations becausethere's really not a whole lot to do). Our entry for spamass-miltertracks the last release from savannah, with the addition of two patchesfrom the andybalholm repo. I'd certainly be open to changing thatarrangement if appropriate and beneficial.My experience with dormant open-source projects like this is thatgetting some kind of official word/statement may be difficult. I thinkit's up to us as representatives of different operating systems todecide which repository to track, whether to backport patches from oneto another, etc. Admittedly my current approach is pretty much one of"least effort", which might not be what you want to do. :-)Hope this helps,Bruce._______________________________________________Spamass-milt-list mailing listSpamass-milt-list@nongnu.orghttps://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/spamass-milt-list
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