Re: Proxies, opensource and the general market: what's wrong with us?

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, ArkanoiD wrote:

>>
>>> As I am still running the OpenFWTK project, I have to admit I get
>>> little to *NO* support form Opensource community.
>>
>> I very rarely hear about openfwtk and I'm in the business. I know of
>> very few companies who have deployed or want to run proxies. Most just
>> stick with stateful packet filtering and maybe a squid/varnish proxy for
>> http and call it a day. In order to have community support you have to
>> have a community. There are 30 people in #shorewall on freenode.net and
>> for nearly 10 years now there has always been someone to help out
>> whenever I had an issue. The mailing list is quite active also. Tom
>> Eastep does a fantastic job of running the project working with the
>> community. openfwtk-devel at
>> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=192764 has 7 subscribers and 10
>> emails in the archive over years. And no IRC channel. It is barely
>> visible at all on the net. You don't get community support if you have
>> no community.
>
> Exactly how am i expected to get the community?

for one thing, release early, release often

the last release showing up on sourceforge under files is 2.0 in 2007, 
with a snapshot release dated Aug 2010 and short of diving into CVS, no 
other snapshots appear to be available. From the discussions we've been 
having, you have been doing more work on this in the meantime, but you 
need to do releases, even if they are small ones, showing progress and 
fixes.

David Lang