Re: Is the logwatch project dying?

Stefan wrote:
> Hello Kirk, hello list,
>
> On Monday, 12th of October 2009 21:48:09 Kirk Bauer wrote:
>   
>> Well, I think Mike keeps up with the patches  OK, so it is up to him
>> if he wants any help. 
>>     
>
> On Friday, 9th of October 2009 22:59:24 Mike Tremaine wrote:
>   
>> As far as I know I am
>> the only one doing any CVS commits. It has been this way for awhile. I
>> wish I had more time and energy to get all the patches in and all that
>> but the truth is I don't. Every 6 months or so I'll get fired up and try
>> to catch up with the patches, I have them all tagged in my mailbox and
>> all that but at the end of the day I'm one guy who has lots of other
>> things I have to do.
>>     
>
> That doesn't sound to me as when Mike keeps up with the patches OK.
>
>   

Yes well that has only been the last year or so you can check the devel 
list for CVS commits but yes I have lost steam since the major work that 
was done in 2007 when I tried to push to an 8.0 release. For reason 
similar to Kirk's my time is more limited then it used to be.

As far as new people I'd welcome any and all. The only thing you have to 
ask yourself is are you really interested in doing this and are you OK 
with the license agreement. What we do not need is people who bail out 
in 6 months just to keep the administration off Kirk's back. I totally 
understand that people come and go but I'm hoping that anyone that wants 
to help is willing to put at least a year into it.

The other point is to be aware of how small patches can break a filter 
by trying to be too greedy. it might work great on your system but 
Logwatch runs on such a diverse amount of system that testing across 
multiple installs is really the best way to be sure.

As long as I brought up 8.0 release all that is really need is to get 
current on the patches from Fedora and Debian and the Devel list once we 
are all in sync it can and should be released because of the Interface 
changes I made. It needs to become the standard so we can end some of 
the confusion over commandline switches. The other HUGE HUGE thing that 
is need is updated Manpages and Docs.

-Mike